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Collected Poems | Gerard Fanning
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Collected Poems | Gerard Fanning

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From his first collection in 1992, Gerard Fanning established himself, in the words of Gerard Smyth, as a poet enduring " almost by stealth ... forging a distinctive style that is striking for its originality." With understated formal elegance, Fanning' s poetry has the cool and control of the Hollywood westerns he admired, dense with allusions to American music and contemporary cinema, and equally attentive to Ireland' s eastern and western seascapes. These are poems which welcome and reward investigation, " where hymn is an amalgam of flutter and whisper, where rhymes / fall in with their echo."

This Collected Poems gathers the four books Gerard Fanning published during his lifetime- Easter Snow (1992), Working for the Government (1999), Water & Power (2004), and Hombre: New and Selected Poems (2011)- along with his final, unpublished collection, Slip Road, completed shortly before his death in 2017 and published here for the first time. Edited by Fanning' s wife Bri d Ni Chuilinn and poet / novelist Conor O' Callaghan, this collection includes contributions from Gerald Dawe and Colm To ibi n, Fanning' s contemporaries and friends, offering key insights for this remarkable body of work.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Wake Forest University Press
Country
United States
Date
7 October 2024
Pages
284
ISBN
9781943667154

From his first collection in 1992, Gerard Fanning established himself, in the words of Gerard Smyth, as a poet enduring " almost by stealth ... forging a distinctive style that is striking for its originality." With understated formal elegance, Fanning' s poetry has the cool and control of the Hollywood westerns he admired, dense with allusions to American music and contemporary cinema, and equally attentive to Ireland' s eastern and western seascapes. These are poems which welcome and reward investigation, " where hymn is an amalgam of flutter and whisper, where rhymes / fall in with their echo."

This Collected Poems gathers the four books Gerard Fanning published during his lifetime- Easter Snow (1992), Working for the Government (1999), Water & Power (2004), and Hombre: New and Selected Poems (2011)- along with his final, unpublished collection, Slip Road, completed shortly before his death in 2017 and published here for the first time. Edited by Fanning' s wife Bri d Ni Chuilinn and poet / novelist Conor O' Callaghan, this collection includes contributions from Gerald Dawe and Colm To ibi n, Fanning' s contemporaries and friends, offering key insights for this remarkable body of work.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Wake Forest University Press
Country
United States
Date
7 October 2024
Pages
284
ISBN
9781943667154