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Bleat & Prattle
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781957221229
Publisher: Clare Songbirds Publishing House
Published: Feb 8 2025
Pages: 40
Weight: 0.12
Height: 0.11 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
With her lush exploration of the natural world, D. Walsh Gilbert magnifies small moments and wee creatures into epiphanies of all kinds in Bleat & Prattle. No creature is too small to be the hero of a story, or a myth. Whether as metaphor or anthropomorphic investigation, she inhabits the animals and flowers she describes, as in I long to be a wasp, to communicate by stinger, in the poem Resolution. Like the great Irish poets Patrick Kavanagh and Eamon Grennan, for Walsh (a dual citizen) the texture of sound in a poem is all-important. In The Little Hills of Monaghan, we find the lines, This, the same scurf smell/ scuffed from the drumlins/ of Kavanagh's/ Inniskeen Road/ as he walked. Her Irish poems will transport any reader right to the old country. One of my favorite poems in this collection is The Time of Balance, a study of a northern cardinal during a thunderstorm. Clinging to a holly bough, the cardinal exhibits the stiff refusal of a small thing/ who tastes winter's vaulted wind on his beak// and still opens his mouth. He swallows/ the tempest. This fine collection takes you by the hand and leads you directly into the wonders of the living world. -Steve Straight author of Affirmation winner of the William Meredith Award in Poetry
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