Seatown

O'Callaghan, Conor

ISBN 10: 1852352434 / ISBN 13: 9781852352431

Published by The Gallery Press, Ireland, 1999

About this Item

First printing of the first edition. Signed by Conor O'Callaghan directly on the title-page. Book and dust jacket in fine condition.

Seller Inventory # 022568

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Seatown
• Publisher: The Gallery Press, Ireland
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1852352434
• ISBN 13: 9781852352431
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: David Farrell (Cover Photo); Thomas Girtin
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • A Collection of Poetry
  • Signed First Editions
  • Modern First Editions

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Synopsis

‘An extraordinarily mature and exact voice which promises really great things . . .’–– Adam Thorpe, The Observer‘There is good humour . . . as well as a sly intelligence, and the whole package of wit has a musicality which makes it memorable . . .’–– Robert Nye, The Times (London)Few first collections receive the critical praise accorded to Conor O’Callaghan’s The History of Rain.Seatown, its remarkable successor, centres around a cluster of poems which draws upon the oldest section of the poet’s home town, Dundalk. They offer at once an unblinkered view of the everyday reality of that place and an unqualified hymn to its rundown charms. Other poems range from the tongue-in-cheek polemics of ‘East’ to the more expansive lyricism of ‘Slip’. Whether obliquely narrative, formally innovative or sensually explicit, Seatown more than justifies that early praise.