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Moya Cannon’s new collection reaches back into the long past, showing how traces left behind – textile fragments, buried thimbles, cave paintings – enable us to make imaginative connections with our distant ancestors, emphasising the commonalities of human lives lived many centuries apart. At the heart of the book is the vital importance of art, as the means by which we give permanence to the fleeting moments of our lives; and our need for a connection to the natural world, even in the most mechanised of modern environments. As the train conductor in the title poem asserts, ‘“I’m going to get a T-shirt with / Keats Lives on it. This time of year, […] when everything starts coming green again, / I always think of him…”’.
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Moya Cannon was born in Dunfanaghy, County Donegal in 1956 and now lives in Galway. Her first collection, Oar, won the inaugural Brendan Behan Award and, in 2001, she was the recipient of the Laurence O Shaughnessy Award (University of St. Thomas, Minnesota). Moya Cannon has edited Poetry Ireland Review and, in 2004, was elected to Aosdána, the Irish affiliation of creative artists. In 2011 she was the holder of the Heimbold Chair of Irish Studies at Villanova University, PA.
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Paperback. Condition: New. Keats Lives is Moya Cannon's fifth collection of poems. Characteristically rich in the moods and rhythms of the poet's western Irish homeland, it is also drawn farther afield, towards contemplation of the disasters of previous centuries, their 'many victories, many collars, little grace'. 'What shift of bedrock, what metamorphosis,' asks the poet, 'might heal such wounded, wounding ground?' An answer is sought in the conversation - the conversion - between politics and ecology: precise, shell-like meditations on the natural world - snow drops and almond blossom, nights of summer thunder - are described with the same humane, delicate energy as warzones and prison camps. Between these extremes, and balanced by them, Homer and Achilles, Shakespeare and Cromwell, 'cattle-herders, butter-makers, singers, dancers' live out their 'sliver of the earth's time' by the same equalizing measure of mountains and forests, 'the gold-struck, mercury sea'. The collection unifies these pasts in the symbolic curia of the museum and library, from where so many of Cannon's poems take wing, pursuing objects beyond their material presence into their haunted pasts, objects that, to paraphrase the collection's closing poem, 'we have often seen before but have never heard'. Seller Inventory # LU-9781784100605
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