Who Seemed Alive & Altogether Real by Padraig Regan

Who Seemed Alive & Altogether Real by Padraig Regan

Padraig Regan’s poems delight in the sensual and the visual: this pamphlet is alive with the textures of paint, sweat, sugar and overripe fruit. Regan riffs on art history in a way which is playful and inquisitive – Johann Zoffany drinks mojitos with David Hockney; Caravaggio outrages and compels; Queen Elizabeth I is effortfully glorious. Many poems focus on the representation of the human body, discovering alternative histories in responses to paintings where the gaze of the male artist is directed towards the male figure in queerly erotic ways.

It’s fun when a poet’s having funEspecially exuberant, controlled fun. And that’s exactly how this pamphlet strikes me. A virtuoso sharing his art, and his enjoyment of it.

* Sphinx *

Rachel Piercey is a poet and editor who also writes for children. Her poems have appeared in magazines including Magma, The Rialto, Poems In Which, Butcher’s Dog and The Poetry Review and she has two pamphlets with the Emma Press, The Flower and the Plough and Rivers Wanted. https://www.rachelpierceypoet.com/

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ISBN 13	9781910139745
ISBN 10	1910139742
Title	Who Seemed Alive & Altogether Real
Author	Padraig Regan
Series	The Emma Press Poetry Pamphlets
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	The Emma Press
Year published	2017-06-08
Number of pages	36
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.