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Live Streaming
Conor O’Callaghan’s Live Streaming is a volume of many styles and themes, whether it is the life of a caravan park, an ode to marriage, or a schoolboy empathizing with Petrarch’s love for Laura and idolizing a heavyweight boxer. O’Callaghan’s typical flair for the contemporary, for the live stream of the virtual, is also abundantly apparent. The centerpiece is the long multi-genre “His Last Legs,” which dramatizes the troubled inheritance from his father and finely balances other more condensed and lyrical poems. This volume is an unflinching display of an impressively skillful poet.
- GenresPoetry
64 pages, Paperback
Published November 1, 2018
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July 3, 2021
O'Callaghan has been writing poetry for a couple of decades. In 2015, he published his first novel about a ghost estate in post-Celtic Tiger Ireland. In 2021, he published his second novel, and announced his intention to focus on writing novels rather than poetry.
His poems are sketches for what he expands upon in his novels. His novels contain incredible imagery and language that comes from his skill as a poet. In his poetry, he struggles to find a place he fits in the world. He was born in Northern Ireland, grew up in the Republic of Ireland, just over the border, and was heavily influenced by his father's Northern Irish world view. He now lives in England, and sometimes in Dublin. He says he doesn't want to live in Ireland. He is, in many ways, a man of his times, living in a world when so many people live far from where they were born, and struggle to find the meaning of home.
His poems are sketches for what he expands upon in his novels. His novels contain incredible imagery and language that comes from his skill as a poet. In his poetry, he struggles to find a place he fits in the world. He was born in Northern Ireland, grew up in the Republic of Ireland, just over the border, and was heavily influenced by his father's Northern Irish world view. He now lives in England, and sometimes in Dublin. He says he doesn't want to live in Ireland. He is, in many ways, a man of his times, living in a world when so many people live far from where they were born, and struggle to find the meaning of home.
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