What's What by Julie O'callaghan
Julie OCallaghan observes life with a sharp wit and a wicked gift for mimicry. Her characters vent strong feelings and betray revealing weaknesses in their own colourful words. Whats What includes a second helping of her incisive monologues a delicious form she made her own in her first book, Edible Anecdotes. Poetry Book Society Choice.
The voice of the mid-West on vacation - crude, colloquial and demonstrativeIt is the brash voice of the American salesman ('what da ya think') promoting freedom, free enterprise and enterprising garbage. It is the voice of returned emigrants, lament-ing their loss. It is the mixed voice of Irish people at tea-break overheard in snatches of conversation. All these voices are captured in dramatic moments or demotic monologues, and their vibrancy sings out clearly. -- Conor Kelly * Poetry Review *
Reading What's What, Julie O'Callaghan's second collection, is like finding oneself in the company of the best kind of wit and raconteuse on a long, long journey...a writer's and reader's antidote to despair. -- Mary O'Donnell * Poetry Ireland Review *
Reading What's What, Julie O'Callaghan's second collection, is like finding oneself in the company of the best kind of wit and raconteuse on a long, long journey...a writer's and reader's antidote to despair. -- Mary O'Donnell * Poetry Ireland Review *
Born in Chicago in 1954, Julie O'Callaghan has lived in Ireland since 1974. Her collections of poetry include Edible Anecdotes (Dolmen Press, 1983), a Poetry Book Society Recommendation; What's What (Bloodaxe Books, 1991), a Poetry Book Society Choice; No Can Do (Bloodaxe Books, 2000), a Poetry Book Society Recommendation; Tell Me This Is Normal: New & Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 2008), a Poetry Book Society Recommendation; and Magnum Mysterium, is published by Bloodaxe in 2020. Her books of poetry for older children include Taking My Pen for a Walk (Orchard Books, 1988), Two Barks (Bloodaxe Books, 1998) and The Book of Whispers (Faber & Faber, 2006). She has received the Michael Hartnett Award for poetry and is a member of the Irish academy of arts, Aosdána.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781852241612 |
| ISBN 10 | 1852241616 |
| Title | What's What |
| Author | Julie O'callaghan |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloodaxe Books Ltd |
| Year published | 1991-11-28 |
| Number of pages | 64 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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