Seatown

Conor O'Callaghan

ISBN 10: 1852352426 / ISBN 13: 9781852352424

Published by The Gallery Press, 1999

About this Item

First edition - Like new copy in original cloth with dustwrapper - Signed and dated by the author - 3/0087 - 63pp. - The Gallery Press, Oldcastle, Co.Meath. 1999. paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Seller Inventory # KCK0001437

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Seatown
• Publisher: The Gallery Press
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1852352426
• ISBN 13: 9781852352424
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

Few first collections receive the critical praise accorded to Conor O’Callaghan’s The History of Rain. Seatown, its remarkable successor, centres around a cluster of poems which draws upon the oldest section of the poet’s home town, Dundalk. They offer at once an unblinkered view of the everyday reality of that place and an unqualified hymn to its rundown charms. But Seatown also becomes a place of the mind and a vantage point from which to meditate on his family’s seafaring history. Other poems range from the tongue-in-cheek polemics of ‘East’ to the more expansive lyricism of ‘Slip’. Whether obliquely narrative, formally innovative or sensually explicit, Seatown more than justifies that early praise.