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By: Jessica Traynor
Publisher: Dedalus Press
Published: November 2018
Pages: 74
Categories: Poetry
Available as: Hardback, Paperback
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ISBN-13: 9781910251454
ASIN: 1910251453

Second collection of poems by the author of the highly praised debut, Liffey Swim. Echoes and hauntings, visions and visitations, glimpses of other worlds in the margins of this … the second collection of poems by Jessica Traynor begins with a brush with death and goes on to explore a startling variety of connections with life and the matter of living. Throughout, from the loss of loved ones to the arrival of a firstborn “no bigger / than a loaf of bread”, the poems stay faithful to a busy cast of characters which includes strangers encountered on a moonlit quay, the infamous propagandist Lord Haw-Haw, and the restless spirits of recent family, national and international history.

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