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Passport
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Exploring place and displacement, boundaries and borders, Passport is the second collection by Richie McCaffery, and follows his acclaimed debut Cairn (Nine Arches Press, 2014). In moving to the Belgian city of Ghent, McCaffery finds "What I see and what happens / are two different countries." In a place of dualities and unrealities, the poems find the usual definitions themselves becoming unstable; the old currency that is no longer valid, the postcards home unsent and the present tense ill at ease.
Written in crisp detail, these fluent poems weigh up whether leaving is a form of running from or coming back to home, wherever that may be. At the heart of this tender and compelling collection, McCaffery writes directly of anxiety, loss and dislocation, asking us to consider what belonging is, and how we find our place in life, in love, and in language.
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CONTENTS
They were worried about me
Breakdown
Postcard from Ostend
Looking for Léon Spilliaert
Double Dutch
Brick
Delft tile
Kongostraat
Ish
Beeldenstorm
University
Ballylar, Fanad
Spoor
Marrakech
Currency
Desert rose
Career change
Ghent statues
Moles
Roots
Auspex
Little farm
Light
Stones
Obituaries
Robin Hood’s Bay
Echo
Apple
Proof-reader
Spanish guitar
Janus
Present tense
The gifts
Calling
Ghent
Typical me
Baudelopark
The paper cut
Iconography
Oil and blood
Nowhere
Postcard
Bottle show
Resolution
Eye test
Day in the life
Balancing the books
The dippers
Spring-cleaning
Ballast
Left hand drive
Corner
An endangered bird made its nest
Acknowledgements and thanks
About t...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- They were worried about me
- Breakdown
- Postcard from Ostend
- Looking for Léon Spilliaert
- Double Dutch
- Brick
- Delft tile
- Kongostraat
- Ish
- Beeldenstorm
- University
- Ballylar, Fanad
- Spoor
- Marrakech
- Currency
- Desert rose
- Career change
- Ghent statues
- Moles
- Roots
- Auspex
- Little farm
- Light
- Stones
- Obituaries
- Robin Hood’s Bay
- Echo
- Apple
- Proof-reader
- Spanish guitar
- Janus
- Present tense
- The gifts
- Calling
- Ghent
- Typical me
- Baudelopark
- The paper cut
- Iconography
- Oil and blood
- Nowhere
- Postcard
- Bottle show
- Resolution
- Eye test
- Day in the life
- Balancing the books
- The dippers
- Spring-cleaning
- Ballast
- Left hand drive
- Corner
- An endangered bird made its nest
- Acknowledgements and thanks
- About the author & this book
- About the Author: