Whisper of a Crow's Wing (Paperback)
Language: English
Published by Otago University Press, Dunedin, 2018
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Paperback. Published simultaneously in Ireland by Salmon Poetry, Majella Cullinanes remarkable second collection, Whisper of a Crows Wing, is the work of a poet with a distinct and powerful voice. These poems weigh and examine oppositions the distance of time and place, the balance of life and death, the poets New Zealand home and her Irish heritage. Cullinane conjures the ghosts that haunt places and objects; our inner and outer world, with rich, physical language:`barter the night for the whorl of a waves tongue, the relish of brine.Know what it is to untangle light from the tooth of a roving tide.(Invitation)She writes with lyrical intensity about motherhood and family life, including the experience of miscarriage, and the process of moving through grief and loss to a place of acceptance and healing. This is a profound collection from a poet alive to the hidden world of memory and imagination, of the sublime in the everyday, tempered always by a shadow of the fragility of life and love. Published simultaneously in Ireland by Salmon Poetry, Majella Cullinanes remarkable second collection, Whisper of a Crows Wing, is the work of a poet with a distinct and powerful voice. This is a profound collection from a poet alive to the hidden world of memory and imagination, of the sublime in the everyday. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…
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- Title
- Whisper of a Crow's Wing (Paperback)
- Author
- Majella Cullinane
- Publisher
- Otago University Press, Dunedin
- Publication year
- 2018
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1988531225
- ISBN 13
- 9781988531229
‘barter the night for the whorl of a wave’s tongue,
the relish of brine. Know what it is to untangle
light from the tooth of a roving tide.’
(Invitation)
She writes with lyrical intensity about motherhood and family life, including the experience of miscarriage, and the process of moving through grief and loss to a place of acceptance and healing. This is a profound collection from a poet alive to the hidden world of memory and imagination, of the sublime in the everyday, tempered always by a shadow of the fragility of life and love.
There is an elegance and poise and care in the language of these poems, an unobtrusive mastery and ease in their cadences and rhythms. Here is writing so close to the sound of how our speech usually arranges itself, and yet set with a hard delicacy that makes it quite something else – memorable, direct, focused to the movement of how the poems present both thought and feeling.
– Vincent O’Sullivan
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