Whale Day by Billie Collins Terrance Hayes The poet’s failure to write

The poet’s failure to write “a real love poem” and a childhood memory of near-accidental loss of eyesight are both

fable and utopia as well as rites of passage

written in Irish

In 2008 this book

“Helen Calcutt’s poems are full of surprising and intricate moments - they unfold like origami

Whale Day by Billie Collins Terrance Hayes The poet’s failure to write'Funny but serious, accessible but rich in meaning, consistently surprising the world looks slightly different after reading a Billy Collins poem. He's a one off, an American treasure' Nick Laird These are poems of whimsy and imaginative acrobatics, but they are grounded in the familiar, common things of everyday experience. Collins takes us for a walk with an impossibly ancient dog, discovers the proper way to eat a banana, meets an Irish spider, and