Pigeon Songs by Eoghan Walls
Pigeon Songs is Derry-born Eoghan Wall's second collection of poems from Seren after his much-praised debut, The Salt Harvest. From the first piece, 'Angry Birds' we have a sense of the poet's themes and preoccupations; we have a richly metaphorical and densely allusive style, a pull towards formal metre and structures, most often the sonnet or a proto-sonnet with couplets, as here. There is also the occasional vigorous vulgarity, adding a touch of blue humor to the canvas, breaking up the formal rigor. Family is a potent presence in poems inspired by parents, grandparents(as here), partners, children. Parenthood weighs large as alternately joyful, terrifying, and essential to everyday existence. We are invited to stare, to mourn, to laugh, even to dance 'The Rare Old Mountain Jig' in this various, lively, compelling book.
Eoghan Walls is a Northern Irish poet. Born in Derry, educated in Wales and Ireland, he has lived in Germany, Rwanda and now teaches Creative Writing at Lancaster University. He has published two previous collections of poetry with Seren Books – ‘The Salt Harvest’ (2011) and ‘Pigeon Songs’ (2019) – and two novels with Seven Stories Press – ‘The Gospel of Orla’ (2023) and ‘Fieldnotes from an Extinction’ (2026) – and translated the first major volume of Heidegger’s poetry. He won an Eric Gregory Award in 2006 and has been shortlisted for many other awards, including the Manchester Poetry Prize and the Piggot Poetry Prize. He currently lives with an array of daughters and occasionally goes jogging.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781781724903 |
| ISBN 10 | 1781724903 |
| Title | Pigeon Songs |
| Author | Eoghan Walls |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Poetry Wales Press |
| Year published | 2019-02-28 |
| Number of pages | 64 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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