Prophesying the Past (Paperback, New)

As the title, Prophesying the Past suggests, this collection plays with our sense of space and time moving back and forth across dates; locations; time zones; generations and even across the boundary between life and death. The poems in Prophesying the Past are never sentimental or didactic, it is left to the reader to savour the cumulative effect as the poems speak through an urbane voice; rooted in history, both social and political but always contemporary in outlook. The personas in this work give voice to the personal and economic dilemmas of a people, from wartime Ireland through to the post Celtic Tiger era. These are poems to be savoured by the generation who were there and explored by the young to find the foundations upon which they stand today.