Floods
eBook - ePub

Floods

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eBook - ePub

About this book

The poems in Maurice Riordan's second collection are unusual in their recourse to the humanist belief in poetry as one of the forms of knowledge, imparting information about the observable world; but they also mix ancient wisdom (signs and wonders) with the open-ended science of the quantum age. Riordan's vision is syncretist. The old and new coexist - interrogating the book's epigraph that 'time is what keeps everything from happening at once' - and this informs his more personal poems: childhood memories of rural Ireland and poems of irretrievable loss nuanced with the restorative intimation that time's arrow is not, perhaps, relentlessly linear.

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Information

Publisher
Faber & Faber
Year
2010
eBook ISBN
9780571264360
Edition
0
Subtopic
Poetry

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Epigraph
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Table of Contents
  7. The Sloe
  8. Frost
  9. The Cemetery Expansion
  10. My Birthday
  11. Badb
  12. The Comet
  13. The Rug
  14. The Boy Turned into a Stag
  15. Bilberry
  16. The Edwardian Tea-Taster
  17. The Lettuce
  18. Silk
  19. On Not Experiencing the Ultraviolet Catastrophe
  20. Caisson
  21. Caroline Songs
  22. The Wineglass
  23. Make Believe
  24. After-image
  25. Afterthought
  26. The Schrödingers’ Cat
  27. Nugget
  28. The Sphere
  29. Sky
  30. Southpaw
  31. The Dinner Call
  32. Playing with Water
  33. Floods
  34. About the Author
  35. Copyright