Collected Poems (Cannon Moya)(Paperback / softback)

In Collected Poems, one of Ireland's best-loved contemporary poets brings together poems from her six principal collections, Oar (1990), The Parchment Boat (1997), Carrying the Songs (1907), Hands (2011), Keats Lives (2015) and Donegal Tarantella (2019)--more than three decades' work--a collection of individual poems which compose a memorable, unpredictable sequence of discovery. The immediacy of our response to the beauty of our exploited planet inspire many of Moya Cannon's poems. The perfection of very early cave art she sees as testimony to the centrality of art in our evolution as humans. Geology, archaeology, history, and music figure as gateways to a deeper understanding of our relationship with our past and the natural world. "Whatever inspiration is," she quotes Wislawa Szymborska as saying, "it is born from a continuous 'I
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