Long Pass by Joey Connolly Iggy Mcgovern In a final section

In a final section

The poems collected in this anthology know sport

Wendy Cope

Julian Flanagan was born in Peru in 1962

and our capacity for relationship and celebration is the invitation of Life itself

Long Pass by Joey Connolly Iggy Mcgovern In a final sectionAch! I misspoke. What I mean to say is this In Long Pass, Joey Connollys first collection, the poet in love, in puzzlement, in frustration or in elegy keeps catching himself out, starting again. He wants to speak truthfully. He wants to say things simply. But nothing is as simple as it seems at first. Nothing strikes the interlocutor quite as he intends. Ach! He goes back. Deflections, tangents: the long pass, the long unfolding sentence, the growing