The Nowhere Birds

by Oreilly, Caitriona

• ISBN13: 9781852245603
• ISBN10: 1852245603
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-01-01
• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd

Summary

This first collection introduces a young writer of remarkable maturity and narrative power. The book's holding pattern is set by questions of location and flight, Beginning with views of childhood and adolescence, Then moving outwards in poems of dar

Table of Contents

Perdita	p. 11
Fragment	p. 12
Six	p. 13
Ninety Eight-Four	p. 15
Diary of a Conformist	p. 16
Two Night Time Pieces	p. 18
Thin	p. 20
Envy	p. 22
Pandora's Box	p. 23
Proserpine	p. 24
The Red Man	p. 25
Autobiography	p. 26
The Harbour in January	p. 28
Blueness	p. 29
Interlude	p. 30
Transition	p. 31
They Do It With Mirrors	p. 32
Sunday	p. 33
Statuary	p. 34
Atlantic	p. 36
Watermark	p. 36
Marmoreal	p. 37
Possession	p. 38
Lions and Tigers and Bears	p. 39
A Brief History of Light	p. 40
Cedar of Lebanon	p. 41
Octopus	p. 42
A Lecture Upon the Bat	p. 43
A Weekend in Bodega Bay	p. 45
Visiting Sergei and Anna	p. 46
The Hotel	p. 49
Burning Pig	p. 50
Anxiety	p. 51
Thunder over the Humber	p. 52
Daffodils	p. 53
After a Death	p. 54
Flames and Leaves	p. 55
A Pastoral Murder	p. 56
Prayer	p. 57
On a Dropped Feather	p. 58
Seagulls and Ravens	p. 59
Hide	p. 60
Thinking of Simone Weil	p. 61
The Nowhere Birds	p. 62
Augury	p. 63
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