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Valparaiso

  • ISBN-13: 9781847771353
  • Publisher: CARCANET PRESS
    Imprint: CARCANET PRESS
  • By Mary O'Malley
  • Price: AUD $24.99
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  • Local release date: 30/07/2012
  • Format: Paperback (216.00mm X 135.00mm) 96 pages Weight: 91g
  • Categories: Poetry by individual poets [DCF]
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Valparaiso is a book of poems begun at sea on an Irish research ship on which Mary O'Malley was a resident poet. It is a book of searches and discoveries. As the scientists chart a course dictated by the demands of their own researches, as Ireland is careering from boom into bust, Mary O'Malley explores the science of going under and staying afloat. What are the effects of such transformations on the imagination? A key poem, 'Out', escapes from the creative lockdown that the Irish boomtime entailed. She returns to an altered place, and is herself changed by an odyssey that has taken her around the Atlantic and Europe to a kind of homecoming.
Mary O'Malley was born in Connemara in 1954 and educated at University College, Galway. She travels and lectures widely in Europe and America, has written for both radio and television and is a frequent broadcaster. Her poems have been translated into several languages. She is a member of Aosdana and the Poetry Council for Ireland. She teaches on the MA in Writing at the National University of Ireland, Galway.
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