The River Crana

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ISBN: 9781911338987

Author	McGuinness, Frank
Pub Date	22/05/2025
Binding	Paperback
Pages	120
Country	IRL
Dewey	823.92

Publisher: The Gallery Press

Quick overview ‘My father’s father took his chance/on the first flight over Lisfannon.’ So begins a poem in Frank McGuinness’s eighth collection, The River Crana, a book equally at home in Donegal as Japan and ancient Illyria.

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His poems have been praised by Seán Hewitt in The Irish Times for their ‘dark contours and gothic atmosphere, their sensory detail and sly humour’ — traits clear in this new book in which ‘Buncrana, Christmas Eve’ is vividly evocative of the author’s home town in his childhood.

A restless imagination . . . a writer of openness and adventure — especially, and consistently, to varieties of identity, political, gendered, sexual . . . original, entertaining, steadfast in their contemplation of colour and darkness.
— Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Dublin Review of Books

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