Liner Notes by Ciaran Berry James Harpur The excellent Naomi Shihab Nye

The excellent Naomi Shihab Nye perches on a staircase

and a clarity which does not deny mystery but makes room for it

from what is not said

was twenty years in the making and written in Montreal

moments of acute observation and imagination

Liner Notes by Ciaran Berry James Harpur The excellent Naomi Shihab NyeFrom brief lyrics that examine a mixtape or a plectrum to larger meditations on the connections between the life of Robert Frost and a trip to the supermarket in the snow, the poems in Ciaran Berrys third collection consider questions of what it means to grow up somewhere and grow away from somewhere. His voice is by turns celebratory, elegiac, inquisitive and quietly humorous, as he conjures a past thats bric brac and hand me down. As these poems