Lysaght, Seán. Erris. Edited by Peter Fallon. County Meath, The Gallery Press, 2002. 21.4cm x 13.8cm. 94 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Signed by the Author

Seán Lysaght is a poet treasured for his explorations of the discipline of silence and watching. In Erris, his local focus is refracted through broader perspectives. His poems adopt a strategy by which a moment observing the natural landscape becomes a prelude to meditation while, in a sequence about his native city, a speaker plays devil’s advocate with ideas about the value of tradition in an Ireland hurrying to forsake it.

An extended narrative dramatizes a move westward, to Connacht, with all the tensions of that phrase’s unsaid counterpart. As his horses ‘knead the brown dough of the ground’ and a plane ‘pulls its thread across an azure afternoon and lets it fray’, Seán Lysaght infuses his poetry with history, memory and the joys of discovery in a new frontier. (Gallery Press).

• Keywords: Irish Literature · Literature · Poetry
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1852353252
• Signed/inscribed
• Inventory Number: 81174AB

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