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TRIO 5: POETRY GRIEG MOONEY SHEPPERSON
by Dennis Greig
€ 1.81
ISBN: 9780856403767
Three very different new talents appear in this latest anthology of Blackstaff's Trio series - the platform for emerging young poets.
Dennis Greig's poems illuminate the world of Belfast backstreets, kitchen houses, parks and parlours. In one poem lovers bathe by firelight as the rain and riot sweep the city outside; in another Green assaults the motorways and sends A spring bouquet / To high-rise flats on Mother's Day. But there is irony and anger here too - at a city that condemns its people to mental homes and prisons, at advertisers who distort and deface human lives, at cruelty, exploitation and loss.
Martin Mooney, the youngest of the three poets, exercises a disciplined maturity in his language and imagery. Spareness and understatement are effective in these poems which closely record a variety of people and places, and the quiet control of his tone invests his writing with clarity and resonance.
Janet Shepperson's more open poetry confronts fragile moments and individuals vulnerable in the face of fearful forces - military, sectarian or economic. Her love poetry is wise passionate and painfully real, and throughout her writing imagery of the natural world is used with freshness and power.
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Date of Publication: 01/05/1987
Paperback
