Local Wonders: Poems of Our Immediate Surrounds

by Pat Boran (Editor)

What do we love? When troubles and doubts threaten to overwhelm, what sustains or inspires us? What are the things we cannot do without?

Recent events have made many of us question a great deal about our lives. Yet somehow they have also taught us to see the world afresh, leading to new discoveries, both tiny and monumental - and often right on our very doorsteps.

Featuring new and emerging as well as more established voices, Local Wonders is a record in poetry of an extraordinary time. More importantly, it is a record of how we have learned to accommodate and adapt, a re-mapping of our complex relationship to our immediate surrounds.

In these still challenging times, above all it is an invitation to sing the praises of what is of real value to us now - not to ignore the things that haunt and worry us, but to see beyond them to the better world that poetry brings into the light.

192 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2021

Reviews

[Barbara · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is the second anthology that Pat Boran, a poet in his own right, has compiled for Dadelus Press. In this one, poets focus on their environs. The pandemic became an opportunity to look closer at our surroundings. This collection includes many known Irish poets, but many more who are emerging poets. Boran also seeks out people who are immigrants to Ireland, and/or diverse in other ways such as race. It is a wonderful collection, and not intimidating to those who don't often read poetry.