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Arias of Consolation
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By: John Liddy
Publisher: Revival Press
Published: August 2021
Pages: 110
Categories: Literature, Poetry
Language: English
Available as: Paperback
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ISBN-13: 9781838092634

Anybody who was at the Limerick-based artist Dietrich Blodau’s ‘A Life of Observations’ art exhibition in the Hunt Museum in 2018 will have been made aware of Blodau’s wonderful depictions of the streets of Limerick. If you had walked these streets all your life, Ellen Street, High Street, The Round House, Todd's Bow, then one saw them completely differently after visiting Blodau's exhibition. That exhibition was good for the soul because for the viewer it turned our view of the city upside down …and magic flowed out. And now John Liddy has achieved the same outcome with his epic book-length poem, Arias of Consolation about the city, written in the manner of Virgil's Aeneid or Milton's Paradise Lost. Written in beautiful rhythmic tercets, as in Derek Walcott's epic poem Omeros.

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