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How Now

Availability: In Stock
ISBN: 9780856464324
AuthorMoore, Alan
Pub Date26/11/2010
BindingPaperback
Pages72
CountryGBR
Dewey821.914
Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
Quick overview A collection of poems. It treats themes of love, evil, and personal loss. It evokes memories of Ireland in the sixties, seventies and eighties, capturing flashes of awareness from childhood, youth and adult years with description of emotion and settings.
€10.35

In "How Now!" Alan Moore treats themes of love, evil, and personal loss with gentle humour and tough seriousness. He evokes memories of Ireland in the sixties, seventies and eighties, capturing flashes of awareness from childhood, youth and adult years with masterful description of emotion and settings. This absorbing work is his second collection of poems, following "Opia", a Poetry Book Society Choice in 1986, which was described by Ciaran Carty as 'a virtuoso first collection'.

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In "How Now!" Alan Moore treats themes of love, evil, and personal loss with gentle humour and tough seriousness. He evokes memories of Ireland in the sixties, seventies and eighties, capturing flashes of awareness from childhood, youth and adult years with masterful description of emotion and settings. This absorbing work is his second collection of poems, following "Opia", a Poetry Book Society Choice in 1986, which was described by Ciaran Carty as 'a virtuoso first collection'.