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His poems suspend a pre-war French idyll of warm evenings and rained-on orchards
and beautifully lyrical
here the creatures which are usualy only glimpsed
her poetry could be seen as a quest for definitions reached through a series of questions
A Herring Famine by Adam O'Riordan Raymond Antrobus His poems suspend a pre-warThe poems of this dazzling second collection are of contradictory impulses: of abundance and famine, of absence and presence, of endings and new beginnings. Here again are the intelligent, elegant, emotionally potent poems that are ORiordans trademark, yet with this collection he also takes us to starker, grittier places that push into bolder territories, from the Herring Famine of 1944 to the Strangeways Prison Riot of 1990. Bounding place and time,
