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Here and There

Here and There

Mulcahy, Brendan

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1789631963
ISBN13: 9781789631968
Publisher: Choir Pr
Published: Jun 1 2021
Pages: 78
Weight: 0.21
Height: 0.19 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

The title Here and There was chosen to signal a poetry collection that places the emphasis on the movement and change which are inescapable features of human existence. The concepts here and there are bonded by experience, can be oppositional and can suggest in a conversational way the sense of being all over the place. In preparing the collection for publication, the author remembered Seamus Heaney's marvellous poem Postscript, which contains the lines, You are neither here nor there, / A hurry through which known and strange things pass. The wisdom of Heaney's assertion - that the attempt to inhabit an unassailable Here is unrealistic - is deeply appealing and links to the need for a stabilising version of what Keats called 'negative capability' in navigating life's conflicting currents.

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