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By: Eamon Grennan
Publisher: The Gallery Press
Published: July 2015
Pages: 80
Categories: Poetry
Language: English
Available as: Hardback, Paperback
On sale at: www.gallerypress.com
ISBN-13: 9781852356439
ASIN: 185235643X

In these short poems full of patient listening, looking, and responding, Eamon Grennan again presents a world of brilliantly excavated moments. Whether watching a flight of oystercatchers off a Connemara strand, or the laden stall of a fish market in Manhattan; whether listening to the silence in an empty room, or the beat of his partner’s heart; whether pondering violence in the Middle East, or the tenuous, endangered nature of even ‘the fairest / order in the world’ — his implicitly philosophic gaze manages to allow the ordinary facts of life take on their own luminous, celebratory, elegiac glow. It is the sort of light he, once again, finds in some of his favourite painters — Cézanne, Bonnard, Renoir, the Dutch masters — light that is inside things and which the painters draw out to our attention. In its melding of a measure of contentment in the moment with an acknowledgement of transience, Grennan’s title — There Now — might stand as an epigraph to all of his work.

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