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Planting a Pear Tree

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ISBN: 9781738499588
AuthorDempsey Helen
Pub Date01/10/2024
BindingPaperback
CountryIRL
Dewey
Publisher: Unknown
Quick overview The last word in Planting a Pear Tree is ‘home’, but the book is an interesting mix of nostalgia and future-thought. The poet is acutely aware of ecological change and social complexities, but reversion to history or myth, as in Canute or Manannán, is never an escape.
€15.00

It seems that every time she takes pen (or keyboard) to poem, her analytical faculty marries her awareness and the poem follows its own necessity for elegance. Immersed in the contemporary and its literary precedents, observing transience and permanence, serving the craft of poetry with careful and often gleeful structures, this collection takes you through time and the thinking mind, and across continents.

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It seems that every time she takes pen (or keyboard) to poem, her analytical faculty marries her awareness and the poem follows its own necessity for elegance. Immersed in the contemporary and its literary precedents, observing transience and permanence, serving the craft of poetry with careful and often gleeful structures, this collection takes you through time and the thinking mind, and across continents.

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