McCarthy Pandemonium

1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-78410-297-5
Verlag: Carcanet Poetry
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 88 Seiten

Written in the wake of Ireland's 2008 economic collapse, Thomas McCarthy's Pandemonium moves between lament and protest in search of a meaningful response in language. Many of the poems were written during a period of retreat along Ireland's south-west coast, a landscape that imbues McCarthy's politics with geological intensity. The Atlantic horizon 'where the sun lies down in the west to die' is mirrored inland by corruption and rot, a modern Ireland beset, in the poet's eyes, by financial and moral pandemonium. McCarthy's subtle satiric wit and understated lyricism preserve raw outrage as historical document. His poems register the moral ire of many during a pivotal era of Irish history, leading with the poet's only weapon, the word - 'the ink trail that pain makes on the page'.

Thomas McCarthy was born in County Waterford in 1954. He was educated at University College Cork and worked for many years at Cork City Libraries. As well as two novels and a collection of essays and diaries, he is the author of several collections of poetry including The Sorrow Garden (1981), The Lost Province (1996) and Merchant Prince (2005). He has held positions as Honorary Fellow of the International Writing Program at University of Iowa and as Professor of English at Macalester College, and is former Editor of Poetry Ireland Review and Cork Literary Review. His writing has received numerous accolades including the Patrick Kavanagh Award and the Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize, and has been translated into Chinese, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Dutch, among other languages. He lives in Cork.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mccarthy, Thomas