WATERFALLS

by Maggie O'Sullivan

This publication (a companion volume to red shifts, also from etruscan) completes Maggie O'Sullivan's poetic project her/ eye:

"Excavating saying, riddle, lore, tale, song, lament, elegy, drawn from Irish mythological, ancestoral and folk traditions, socio-political history, (particularly the Great Famine of 1845-52, the clearances, dispossession and exile), as well as personal mappings, meditations, family oral histories, her/ eye is a multi-dimensional, visceral performance, interrogating its own trans/formations as it floods and explodes acoustic-aural-visual-verbal-sculptural force fields across red shifts and WATERFALLS in a passionate, radical, physicalised installation of languagings im/possibilities."

Genres: Poetry

84 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2009

Reviews

[Dane Cobain · Rating 4 out of 5]

Waterfalls is a collection of the work by Lincolnshire-based poet Maggie O’Sullivan, and yet another genre-defying book from Hastings‘ Reality Street poetry press. What’s of note here is the way in which the poetry is so inherently visual, with the layout fluctuation throughout to accentuate Maggie’s words.

It’s a bit different to most of the other stuff on the market, and that’s a good thing. Worth reading!