Grub

By Martin Mooney

Martin Mooney's poems are darkly comic, muscular, inventive and highly charged. Politics simmer beneath the surface of poems that find their energy in the everyday urban experience, be it work at the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0967885671
• ISBN13: 9780967885674
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: CavanKerry Press
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.9" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Hallmarked with a dark wit and emotional charge

Highly recommended to the attention of all who enjoy well crafted verse and word play, the poetry of Martin Mooney as showcased in Grub is hallmarked with a dark wit and emotional charge that is both eloquent and evocative. Alice: The house in Donnybrook street was a hive of draughts,/cold infesting the long crack in the skirting/and the hardly imaginable space below the floor,//that first winter, a lace curtain of frost/on the inside of your windows brought you under/my quilt and three blankets for the first time,//where to put out your arm was to run the risk/of frostbite, and to sleep with a cheek exposed/was to dream of a visit to the dentist.../For the first time we went through the looking-glass/chapter by chapter, me reading, you dwindling/quickly to sleep, up to your eyes in bedclothes,//with Alice no longer the little girl she was/and my voice like the idiot grin of the Cheshire Cat,/still hovering inexplicably over your head//muttering 'curiouser and curiouser' to itself.