Tagged: “Collected Poems | Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin”
Poem of the Week: The Horses of Meaning by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
Let their hooves print the next bit of the story:
release them, roughmaned
from the dark stable where
they rolled their dark eyes, shifted and stamped—
let them out, and follow the sound, a regular clattering
on the cobbles of the yard, a pouring round the corner
into the big field, a booming canter.
Guinn Batten on Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin’s new COLLECTED POEMS
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin may be the contemporary Irish poet most relevant today, as we continue to enlarge the shifting contours and diverse embodiments of Irish legacies and identities, and the poet who most rewards our keen and sustained attention. Indeed, she may also be of her contemporaries the least indebted to Yeats, or to any…
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