Overview

Much of Sudden Light, Irish poet Enda Wyley’s 6th collection of poems, takes place in the centre of her native Dublin where the poet lives. Views and glimpses of the immediate city, both as foreground and background, as well as interactions with its inhabitants, comprise the daily exchange of life and create the sense of a present moment balanced on the city’s various layers of personal and shared history. Many of the poems respond to a wide range of paintings, from Janet Mullarney to Luca Signorelli, and photography is also an inspiration as if memory were a kind of picture-taking or -making – the job of the passing poet to observe, to record, and to move on.

Full Product Details

9781915629456

Table of Contents

Reviews

Author Information

Enda Wyley is a poet and a fiction writer born in Dún Laoghaire, Co. Dublin. She has published five collections of poetry – from her debut Eating Baby Jesus (1993) through to Borrowed Space, New and Selected Poems (2014). Her poetry has been widely anthologised, including in The Harvard Anthology of Modern Irish Poetry. She was the inaugural winner of the Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize, Australia, and was awarded a Patrick and Katherine Kavanagh Fellowship for her poetry. She is a member of Aosdána.

Tab Content 6

Countries Available