The Goose Tree E-Book

Moyra Donaldson

• Herausgeber: Liberties Press
• Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2014

Beschreibung

"Moyra Donaldson's poetry has grown to ignite unexpected perceptions and magnify them. Betrayals, personal and political; excavations, historical and psychic; correspondences of temperament and object; innocences pristine and varied and very much in power. The Goose Tree shows a poet treading on her own footprints; the considerable themes of her career advanced in perspective and colour and with the happy skills of a poet both accomplished and mature but alert still to surprise, both in form and substance: like her 'village women who waited/In their beds for the sound of wings'. A joyous collection." - Damian Smyth Moyra Donaldson's work has been hailed as 'urbane, modern, and sophisticated . . . ambitious in its scope, and speaking with a rare authority.' Whatever the subject matter - be it anatomy, death, life, sex, or the natural world - Donaldson writes with a keen knowledge of the connection between the private and the public, the past and the present, the local and the universal. A masterful new collection from one of Ireland's leading poets.

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The Goose Tree

Moyra Donaldson

Contents

Title PageDedicationAcknowledgementsA Winter GiftTo the Current Occupants of My Parents’ HouseForty ShadesGreba CrasThe Tent Mission MenRedSome of the Things I Have PlantedBad DreamsNo SurrenderSilencesThe Goose TreeMovilla CemeteryMegaceros HibernicusThe Flayed HorseDaisiesNature StudyApples of LoveThe Cat’s ClothingT’ai Chi and HIV in 1983Elephant and Castle 3 a.m.A Bucket of EelsNo WhalesGoldStormUsing Only Means Acknowledged To Be HolySculptureTokenWhat You Wish ForNo Domestic GoddessSignificanceNight RiverAt the Spring SolsticeRock‘Like a Thief in the Night’The Cow-Tail Pump and the WellRookeryNot Too LateDusk After a Perfect Day, GweedoreMy RetirementExorcismTo Pacify the PastCopyright

For John

Acknowledgements

Versions of some of these poems have previously appeared in the following magazines and journals: The Cincinnati Review; Big City Lit, New York; Abridged Magazine; Poetry Salzburg Review; Revival Magazine; The SHOp; The Same, New York; Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing, Missouri.

Thanks to Damian Smyth for helping to keep me steady throughout the writing of this collection and to my friends, Angela George, Debbie Mills, Jo Egan and Pamela Greene, for all the ways in which they support me. Most of all, thanks to John for his constant love and encouragement.