Carrying the Songs

by Cannon, Moya

• ISBN13: 9781857549225
• ISBN10: 1857549228
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-04-01
• Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd.

Summary

Migrationsof birds, people, words, and songsand the ravages of time are luminously explored in this wonderful collection of poems. At their core, the poems draw together the natural and human worlds through resonating, rhythmic prose. A selection of poems from the poet's previous collections is also included.

Author Biography

Moya Cannon is the author of two previous poetry collections, Oar and The Parchment Boat, and a former editor of Poetry Ireland Review. She is a recipient of the Brendan Behan and the Lawrence O'Shaughnessy Awards.

Table of Contents

Winter birds	p. 13
Carrying the songs	p. 14
Timbre	p. 15
Our words	p. 16
First poetry	p. 17
Forgetting tulips	p. 18
Augers	p. 19
Demolition	p. 20
Oughterard lemons	p. 21
Golden lane	p. 22
Indigo	p. 23
Run	p. 24
Starlings	p. 26
Bright city	p. 27
Stranger	p. 28
Walking out to Island Eddy	p. 29
Sheep at night in the Inagh Valley	p. 30
Weaning	p. 31
Whin	p. 32
Barbari	p. 33
To Colmcille returning	p. 37
Going for milk	p. 38
Script	p. 40
Shells	p. 41
Survivors	p. 42
Breastbone	p. 43
Exuberance	p. 44
Banny	p. 45
Orientation	p. 46
Aubade	p. 47
Pollen	p. 48
Vogelherd horse, 30,000 B.C.	p. 49
Chauvet	p. 50
The force	p. 51
Lamped	p. 52
Eagles' rock	p. 55
Holy well	p. 56
Thirst in the Burren	p. 57
Oar	p. 58
Thalassa	p. 59
'Taom'	p. 60
Tree stump	p. 61
Turf boats	p. 62
Prodigal	p. 63
No sense in talking	p. 64
Hills	p. 66
The foot of muckish	p. 67
Listening clay	p. 68
Easter	p. 69
Scar	p. 70
Eros	p. 71
Afterlove	p. 72
Narrow gatherings	p. 73
Dark spring	p. 75
Wet doves	p. 76
Nest	p. 77
Crow's nest	p. 78
After the burial	p. 79
Sympathetic vibration	p. 80
Foundations	p. 81
Votive lamp	p. 82
Crannog	p. 85
Shards	p. 86
Introductions	p. 87
Murdering the language	p. 88
Hunter's moon	p. 89
Ontario Drumlin	p. 90
Patched kayak	p. 91
Oysters	p. 92
Tending	p. 93
Violin	p. 94
Viola d'Amore	p. 95
Arctic tern	p. 96
Milk	p. 97
Winter paths	p. 98
Hazelnuts	p. 99
Mountain	p. 100
Scriob	p. 101
Thole-pin	p. 102
Easter houses	p. 103
Song in Windsor, Ontario	p. 104
Driving through light in West Limerick	p. 105
Attention	p. 107
An altered gait	p. 108
Bulbs	p. 109
Night	p. 110
Migrations	p. 111
Between the jigs and the reels	p. 112
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