Forest Music
Published on 15. February 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
108 pages
978-1-84861-026-2 (ISBN)
Description
Forest Music is Susan Connolly's second full-length collection. Many poems in the book depict Susan Connolly's personal encounter with her landscape. Living in Drogheda, close to the Boyne Valley, her poems celebrate the famous archaeological monuments of Knowth, Dowth and Newgrange alongside local landmarks: the Maiden Tower, the seawall at Baltray and the discovery in a back garden of a cobbled garden dating from the early nineteenth century. Her recent work is more experimental in form. These poems involve a typography in which the visual pattern corresponds in some way to the sense of the word or phrase represented. Dissatisfied with words always moving from left to right across the page, in these poems words can be vertical instead of horizontal, and move in circles and spirals as the need dictates.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Exeter
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 6 mm
Weight
148 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84861-026-2 (9781848610262)
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Susan Connolly was born in Drogheda, Co. Louth, Ireland, in 1956. She studied Music and Italian at University College, Dublin. Her first full-length collection, 'For the Stranger', was published by the Dedalus Press in 1993. Along with some other short collections, she has also published collaborations with artist and photographer Anne-Marie Moroney, including 'Race to the Sea', 'Ogham: Ancestors Remembered in Stone' (2000) and 'Winterlight'. With Anne-Marie Moroney she co-authored 'Stone and Tree Sheltering Water' (1998), an exploration of sacred and secular wells in Co. Louth. The publication of this book was sponsored by the Heritage Council of Ireland.Susan Connolly was awarded the Patrick and Katherine Kavanagh Fellowship in Poetry in 2001. In the same year she received a Publications Grant from the Heritage Council of Ireland for 'A Salmon in the Pool', a literary and place-names map of the river Boyne from source to sea. She has received bursaries from the Heinrich Boll Foundation and the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Annamakerrig.Several of her poems have been set to music by the composer Michael Holohan and have been performed in Ireland and abroad. A 40 minute programme about her poetry 'Touched by Winterlight' was broadcast on ABC National Radio (Australia) in October 2005.