Geis by Caitriona O'reilly
Geis was the third collection by one of Ireland's most acclaimed younger poets, winner of the Irish Times Poetry Now Award 2016. It was also a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and was shortlisted for the 2016 Pigott Poetry Prize in association with Listowel Writers Week.
Geis is an outstanding achievementIt is intense, intelligent and finely-crafted poetry which is both self-examining and dazzled... by the word and the world’s beauty. It is contemporary Irish poetry at its finest. -- Lia Mills, Colin Graham and Gerard Smyth * judges of the Irish Times Poetry Now Award *
I first came across her poetry in The Sea Cabinet, a book that has the beauty and strength of a blue whale in its reach for the depths of experience and celebration of language as if it were oxygen. Geis (meaning “taboo” in Irish mythology) promises more sharp observations of nature both human and not, plus it features a poem called 'Iceland'. -- Sjón (author & former Björk lyricist) * The Independent (Best Summer Reads 2015) *
O’Reilly has what so few poets have: a language all of her own, so much so that any image or line is instantly recognisable as hers. -- Sinéad Morrissey * Guardian (Books of the Year) *
I first came across her poetry in The Sea Cabinet, a book that has the beauty and strength of a blue whale in its reach for the depths of experience and celebration of language as if it were oxygen. Geis (meaning “taboo” in Irish mythology) promises more sharp observations of nature both human and not, plus it features a poem called 'Iceland'. -- Sjón (author & former Björk lyricist) * The Independent (Best Summer Reads 2015) *
O’Reilly has what so few poets have: a language all of her own, so much so that any image or line is instantly recognisable as hers. -- Sinéad Morrissey * Guardian (Books of the Year) *
Caitríona O'Reilly was born in Dublin in 1973, grew up in Wicklow and Dublin, and now lives in Lincoln. She studied archaeology and English at Trinity College Dublin, where she wrote a doctoral thesis on American literature; she has also held the Harper-Wood Studentship from St John's College, Cambridge. Her first collection The Nowhere Birds was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 2001, and won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature in 2002 (given to the best new book by any Irish writer). Her second collection, The Sea Cabinet (Bloodaxe Books, 2006), was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and was shortlisted for the Irish Times Poetry Now Award in 2007. Her third collection, Geis (Bloodaxe Books, UK; Wake Forest University Press, USA, 2015), won the Irish Times Poetry Now Award 2016 and was shortlisted for the Pigott Poetry Prize in association with Listowel Writers' Week. It is also a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. She is a freelance writer and critic, has written for BBC Radio 4, translated from the Galician of María do Cebreiro, and published some fiction. She has collaborated with artist Isabel Nolan, edited several issues of Poetry Ireland Review, and was a contributing editor of the Irish poetry journal Metre.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781780371467 |
| ISBN 10 | 1780371462 |
| Title | Geis |
| Author | Caitriona O'reilly |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloodaxe Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2015-05-21 |
| Number of pages | 64 |
| Prizes | Winner of Irish Times Poetry Now Award 2016 (Ireland), Short-listed for Pigott Poetry Prize in association with Listowel Writers’ Week 2016 (Ireland) |
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