Ciaran Berry

The Sphere of Birds (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From 'the blood that's bloomed above the wound's neat hole' to 'harsher truths that hit home hour after hour' Ciaran Berry ¿xes his un¿inching stare on an astounding range of subjects - 'foundlings' out of history's long corridor, Donegal fences, Belfast in the War years, immigrant workers from Ireland, a rogue elephant in Coney Island (1903), a high-wire walker, and the beekeeper's art. From the fact of blindness to the act of seeing there is a surgical precision to his descriptions and reports. By way of the circuits of his meditations, curiosity and learning lead to the realm of discovery and elucidate often arcane mysteries. Sure-footed and steady paced, this ¿rst collection reveals an uncommon capacity to sustain tension over long lines and, even, extended poems. The Sphere of Birds is a remarkably impressive, eclectic and accomplished debut.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The Gallery Press
• Seitenzahl: 88
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781911337058
• Artikelnr.: 48803723

Autorenporträt

Ciaran Berry was born in Dublin in 1971 and grew up in Carna, County Galway, and Falcarragh, County Donegal. He graduated from N, a New York Times Fellow, and now teaches at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, where he lives with his family. The Sphere of Birds (2008) won the Crab Orchard Award, the Michael Murphy Memorial Prize and the Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize. In 2012 he received a Whiting Writers' Award for poetry.