Publisher's Synopsis
Eamon Grennan's new collection shows once again his powers of close, patient, plainspoken observation. He reveals how any specific detail can glow with the truth of its own unrepeatable self. Set mostly in the landscape of coastal Connemara, these poems can also bring to vivid life a family walk, a painting by Bonnard, a childhood memory, a brief encounter or the sight of a man scything a field. Through the repeated justified-margins format of these poems (each poem's line width determined by the chosen length of its first line) Grennan aligns accident with design and choice with chance. ??The book serves to sharpen our own habits of attention, renewing our sense of the often unnoticed worlds around us.
