Pigeon Songs

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

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Eoghan Walls’ Pigeon Songs is a gorgeous second collection of poems: richly detailed, densely metaphorical, steeped in themes of love and loss. The pigeon as a totem animal rings true, suggesting both a down-to-earth physicality along with an ability to astonish, to take flight. From the first piece, ‘Angry Birds’ we have a sense of the poet’s themes and preoccupations: we have a richly metaphorical and densely allusive style, a pull towards formal metre and structures. There is also the occasional vigorous vulgarity, adding a touch of blue humour to the canvas, breaking up the formal rigor. Formally adept, vividly evocative, Pigeon Songs rewards re-reading.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2019-02-28
Mått129 x 198 x 15 mm
Vikt115 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor72
FörlagPoetry Wales Press
ISBN9781781724903

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Eoghan Walls is a Northern Irish poet. Born in Derry, educated in Wales and Ireland, he has lived in Germany, Rwanda and now teaches Creative Writing at Lancaster University. He has published two previous collections of poetry with Seren Books – ‘The Salt Harvest’ (2011) and ‘Pigeon Songs’ (2019) – and two novels with Seven Stories Press – ‘The Gospel of Orla’ (2023) and ‘Fieldnotes from an Extinction’ (2026) – and translated the first major volume of Heidegger’s poetry. He won an Eric Gregory Award in 2006 and has been shortlisted for many other awards, including the Manchester Poetry Prize and the Piggot Poetry Prize. He currently lives with an array of daughters and occasionally goes jogging.