Micheál Ó Cuaig and Ãine Nà Ghlinn
Perry’s Beauty/Beauty is a book of reflection and symmetry
the sinking of the Mona lifeboat in 1959 and the long
for the boys living as minibus conductors or chewing-gum sellers
a comprehensive selection drawn from ten formally diverse and thematically unified collections
A Straight Up Giant by Mark Waldron Keston Sutherland Micheál Ó Cuaig and ÃineSerious, comic, brave, cowardly, engaged, disengaged, urgent, unurgent, chattering chiffchaff, talking horses, unpretentious, pretentious, all of God's creatures are here. There's also an almost but not quite dialogue between the poems and the laconic (and sometimes furious) musings of the passages which punctuate them. There are a series of fairytale poems, and others which give unfettered voice to Marcie, a character who has appeared in Mark