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by Moya Cannon (Author)
A Poetry Book Society Recommendation
This is a book of wonderings and wanderings. Many of the wanderings are on familiar territory explored on foot, the hills of Wicklow and of the Burren in Co. Clare, the shorelines of Dublin Bay, of North West Donegal, of Galway, Achill and the Aran Islands. Other poems bring us farther afield, to a French village on the banks of the Saô ne, to the Venetian Island of Torcello, to a sacred mountain lake in China. In these poems there is an alertness to the palimpsest of lives, human and non-human, lived in these places and the mystery of each individual life.
Author Biography
Moya Cannon is an Irish poet with six previous collections. In 2021 Carcanet published her Collected Poems. She was born and grew up in Co. Donegal, received a BA in History and Politics from University College, Dublin, and an MPhil in International Relations from Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. A recipient of the inaugural Brendan Behan Award and of the O' Shaughnessy Award, she was Heimbold Professor of Irish Studies at Villanova University and in 2004 was elected to Á osdÁ na, the affiliation of Irish creative artists.
