Words from the Wall by Adam Thorpe Ailbhe Darcy sending explorative tendrils deep and

sending explorative tendrils deep and offers a powerful conversational voice

something subterranean

the poems in Ciaran Berry’s third collection consider questions of what it means to grow up somewhere and grow away from somewhere

Dan Chiasson

His first poem was published in 1957 in the Leninakan Daily Worker

Words from the Wall by Adam Thorpe Ailbhe Darcy sending explorative tendrils deep andThese remarkable poems are despatches from the edges of experience: from the remote coast of northern Iceland where tree trunks and dead whales lie beached, to the furthest outposts of the Roman empire in the title poem From the very limit of the world, Flavius sends you greetings, my lord. The collection is concerned with borders and brinks the liminal spaces where distinctions blur between outer and inner, known and unknown, between what is familiar