The Map of the World by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin Andrew Marvell incisive and real

incisive and real

and introduces still others in poems of love and laughter

and from Finland and Nicaragua –  are complemented by outstanding work by sixteen other poets and translators

Words become lexical clay in the hands of the poet

paranoid world

The Map of the World by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin Andrew Marvell incisive and realWinner of the Farmgate Caf National Poetry Award. Shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. Although The Map of the World abounds in the tales half told or hinted at for which Eilan N Chuilleanins poetry is widely admired this book reaches further into the ways one might confront misfortune and disaster and the whole weight of history. Her images present ideas about how to engage with the past and about other genres representations of it. Already