Constantly inventive and unerringly precise, the poems in Notions, John Kelly's debut collection reveal an author at home with both the stand-alone lyric and the longer, apparently improvisational pieces that contribute so much to this book's extraordinary brio and style.
The breadth of cultural reference is perhaps a given, but Kelly's real achievement is to make sense of a sometimes teeming field of vision. From the natural world to the troubled north of his youth, through encounters with art - and its creators - to poems that chart the seismic changes that come with love, fatherhood and loss, Notions is a book full of humour and play, wonder and woundedness.
| ISBN: | 9781910251423 |
| Publication date: | 1st November 2018 |
| Author: | John Kelly |
| Publisher: | Dedalus Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 83 pages |
| Genres: |
Poetry by individual poets |
Constantly inventive and unerringly precise, the poems in Notions, John Kelly's debut collection reveal an author at home with both the stand-alone lyric and the longer, apparently improvisational pieces that contribute so much to this book's extraordinary brio and style.
The breadth of cultural reference is perhaps a given, but Kelly's real achievement is to make sense of a sometimes teeming field of vision. From the natural world to the troubled north of his youth, through encounters with art - and its creators - to poems that chart the seismic changes that come with love, fatherhood and loss, Notions is a book full of humour and play, wonder and woundedness.
Notions features in the following genres: Poetry by individual poets
Notions is available in Hardback, Paperback
Notions was written by John Kelly and published by Dedalus Press
Notions has 83 pages