Fiction

By Conor O'Callaghan

Fiction uses the metanarrative of writing for its overarching theme, as it tests a web of reality and imagination, truth and deceit. From the title poem s first line, None of this is true, to the poem... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1852353821
• ISBN13: 9781852353827
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: The Gallery Press
• Length: 75 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.

Customer Reviews

An outstanding collection of Conor O'Callaghan's most vivid and conceptual poetry

Very highly recommended to all poetry lovers, Fiction is an outstanding collection of Conor O'Callaghan's most vivid and conceptual poetry. As a long-time poet, and perpetual student of the universe around him, O'Callaghan's poetry buries itself deep into the skin of the reader, creating an upheaval of enlightening, life enriching and thought- provoking realizations only found in such judicious body of work. Fiction: None of this is true./We're still all/we crack ourselves/out to be.//I haven't laid/our he rafters/in a plot/with my loose ends.//You're not miles away./The slow numbers/were never/swayed alone to.//I don't blame you,/smiling in the mirror/at a face/you've just made up.