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By Vona Groarke

ISBN-10: 185235240X

ISBN-13: 9781852352400

In his oddly prophetic evaluation of Vona Groarke's Shale in Poetry eire evaluate, Anthony Roche favored 'a strikingly person sensibility wealthy adequate to inhabit 100 empty rooms'. Her moment assortment makes use of a twin of the home — and homes themselves —as the surroundings for the enactment of specific lives. It contains poems approximately relationships (some playful, a few soured) and others ?xed on public, ancient reference issues. It concludes with extra own attentions. This publication levels from the witty, virtually epigrammatic 'Open House', via a few richly suppressed narratives corresponding to 'Domestic Arrangements', to the extra sombre registers of 'Holiday Home'. different People's homes complements Caitríona Clutterbuck's effect in Oxford Poetry of 'a remarkably guaranteed' and 'beautifully regulated' voice.

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In his oddly prophetic overview of Vona Groarke's Shale in Poetry eire overview, Anthony Roche preferred 'a strikingly person sensibility wealthy adequate to inhabit 100 empty rooms'. Her moment assortment makes use of a twin of the home — and homes themselves —as the surroundings for the enactment of specific lives.

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