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Under Tainaron
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781837380046
Publisher: Shearsman Books
Published: Aug 1 2025
Pages: 34
Weight: 0.11
Height: 0.08 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Under Tainaron recasts elements of the myths of Orpheus and Eurydice and is rooted in the locations where that mythology originated. On that basis Corcoran's libretto discloses its poignant relevance to our present world.
Corcoran is at the front of contemporary poetry: the lyric grace of his language is threaded with an historical perspective that raises the poetry far beyond the world of a localised present. -Ian Brinton, Tears in the Fence.
Kelvin Corcoran's recent work inhabits the imagination as a distinct sphere of abundance, drawn from reality as a celebration of the true scope of the mind. And the instrument of this is a written eloquence which takes in the past of poetry and of the spirit as a freshly lived condition. -Peter Riley, PN Review.
Kelvin Corcoran is a writer for whom politics and poetics are inseparable; his work demonstrates an exhilarating truth, that wit and irony need not exclude passion and trust in the pursuit of poetry. -Ken Edwards, The New British Poetry.
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