Aideen Henry / Slow Bruise (Salmon Poetry) (Unused)

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Slow Bruise is a body of work with multiple layers and resonances. Emotion is intensely felt yet tamed, so that the poems are cool and palatable and yet red hot with feeling. Those who came before us forms the skeleton of the first section, Culvert, which, like a young child raising his head from the ground for the first time and looking around at this world, evolves into a ruthless account of what is perceived in that seeing and this continues in the final section, Trevelyan. The poems in Lure, the second section, reveal all facets of romantic entanglement from their tentative beginnings, on into the sensuous, finally reaching the forensic brutality of a relationship ended, combining unashamed desolation with a dignified grappling with grief. How we use language is examined and an undercurrent of Irish runs beneath these poems to surface at times as full translations and form eddies here and there in the Hiberno-English expressions throughout.

These Salmon Poetry books have come into us unused and unopened but due to the storage in their last location they might have some scuffs or marks on the edges of the pages