Reservoir Voices

by Brendan Kennelly

Book Overview

Much of Brendan Kennelly's poetry gives voice to others and otherness. Whether through masks or personae, dramatic monologues or riddles, his poems inhabit other lives, other beings and other ways of being in the world. The riddling poems of "Reservoir Voices" add a further dimension to these explorations, inspired by an autumn sojourn in America where he would sit by the edge of a reservoir, trying to cope with loneliness by contemplating black swans,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 185224836X
• ISBN13: 9781852248369
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.3" x 8.4"