The new book from the popular Irish poet.
Matthew Sweeney was born in Donegal. Apart from his poetry, he has written children's fiction and edited three anthologies, Beyond Bedlam (with Ken Smith), Emergency Kit (with Jo Shapcott) and the New Faber Book of Children's Verse. Cape published his Selected Poems in 2002, and Sanctuary in 2004.
Sweeney's poems are reflective, funny, supremely inventive and
impeccably written. This is contemporary poetry at its very
best
*Charles Simic*
Matthew Sweeney is a unique force for good in British poetry. The
work is one large metaphor, a parable for the human condition... He
is one of our finest poets of the unconscious; of darkness brought
to life and madly, glintingly, against all expectation, shared
*Independent*
The poems are rich with situation and character, embryos of
narrative, pulsing with implicit life... Sweeney has full command
of the devices of poetry: sound, image, rhythm adn form, and a sly
sense of humour
*Ruth Fainlight*
Darkly comic
*Guardian*
Sweeney's poems are like shards of mirror. As you bend to look more
closely, they cut. His version from Dante's Inferno , a passage
which deals with the damned locked in ice on the floor of Hell, is
chilling and possesses a near -demonic energy. It seems that for
Sweeney, as for Douglas Dunn, a long poem releases new force in the
poet
*Observer*
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