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"...there is that second strand, the fitful, halting strand of Irish modernism, a bare technique, picked up by Beckett and carried through by writers such as... neo-Classicist poet, Fergal Gaynor. James Joyce would have recognised these contemporary writers instantly, knowing that their modernist efforts to escape from the story-teller material of Ireland should lead to new forms..." -Thomas McCarthy, Irish Examiner
"Few poets have cast a colder eye on the inevitability of decline, without surrendering to it: 'The sclerotic being dismantled, / a fine automaton springs downtrack.'" -Keith Tuma
Contents
3 Paeans
For Ed
The Octagon
Runes
Cork's Lough
Twinning
The Tower
Las Meninas
After J.S. Bach's 'Musical Offering'
Cubist Portrait of Hippolytus
2 Futurologies
The Furthest Reaches
Guyenne Sketch
On Either Side
of a Blank
Sudoku
Excerpt from 'A New History of Printing'
