Gathering Evidence
Will be published approx. on 28. February 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
60 pages
978-1-84777-262-6 (ISBN)
Description
With pinpoint accuracy, virtuosity and humour, Caoilinn Hughes aligns scientific and poetic venturing. In this striking debut collection she focuses on moments of discovery, from the first controlled nuclear reaction to the shape of an avalanche as witnessed from its catchment area. These are epiphanies with consequences.
Reviews / Votes
'The notion of the poet as alchemist is a familiar one, but Caoilinn Hughes gives it new and enormous energy. I find myself wondering how she knows so much about so many things; and then I notice how far her poems travel beyond their own footprints. On page after page, she offers transformation -- turning facts into feeling, experience into knowledge, prose into poetry, science into art.'Bill Manhire 'Hughes brings to the embers of the Irish lyric new breath, new music, new word hoards, reinvigorating that tradition. She spins news from her travels in the wide world and it feels like essential information. This collection is a flaring forth, an auspicious comet, signal of achievement and promise.'
Paula Meehan 'Carcanet Press and Belfast women poets are a very happy combination at the moment, and Caoilinn Hughes promises to be as individual a voice as Sinead Morissey. Add to that a caustic wit, as evidenced on Pacific Rim, or a gift for characterisation in Vagabond Monologue -- 'I'llEUR (TM)ll tell you what makes poetry flow? Nice big bank notes to be writing poems on'EUR (TM). And so say all of us.'
The Belfast Telegraph
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Carcanet Press Ltd
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 151 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight
106 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84777-262-6 (9781847772626)
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Person
Caoilinn Hughes is an Irish writer whose poetry collection Gathering Evidence (Carcanet, 2014) won the Irish Times Shine/Strong Award and was a finalist for the Seamus Heaney Prize, the Pigott Poetry Prize in association with Listowel Writers' Week, the Royal Society of NZ Science Book Prize and the NZ Post Book Award for Poetry. Her debut novel, Orchid & the Wasp, will be published in June 2018 by Hogarth and Oneworld. She is a fellow of the James Merrill Foundation, the Bogliasco Foundation, the Centre Culturel Irlandais, the Tin House Summer Workshop, Art Omi, and she has received a Literature Bursary Award from the Arts Council of Ireland, and the Ireland Funds Monaco Award. Her work has appeared in Tin House, POETRY, Granta, Best British Poetry, Poetry Ireland, BBC Radio 3, and elsewhere. She divides her time between the Netherlands and Ireland.
Content
Avalanche
Gathering Evidence
The Transit of Venus
Pacific Rim
The Moon Should Be Turned
King of the Castle
This Is What Makes It Go Bang
Catechism
Rational Dress
On the Content of Brackets
Looting Roses
Vagabond Monologue
Snake Creeps through the Grass
The Shell Man
Somatic Cells
Impressions of Ireland
To the Elements
We Are Experiencing Delay
Two Roundelets
Every Body Continues In Its State Of Rest
Lucky
Marbles
Communion Afternoon
Cynophobia
Playing House
Dublin Can Be Heaven
Hames of a Haiku
Soldiers in the Battle for Hedonism
Atmospheric Physicist vs Poetic Atmosphericist
Estuary
Bruisewort
Bolivian Children
A Peruvian Blockade, According to Bolivia
Altitude
God Always Geometrises
Harmony of the Spheres
Airbowing in Second Violins
Watershed
Is It A Kind Of Bell Toll?
Legacy
Gathering Evidence
The Transit of Venus
Pacific Rim
The Moon Should Be Turned
King of the Castle
This Is What Makes It Go Bang
Catechism
Rational Dress
On the Content of Brackets
Looting Roses
Vagabond Monologue
Snake Creeps through the Grass
The Shell Man
Somatic Cells
Impressions of Ireland
To the Elements
We Are Experiencing Delay
Two Roundelets
Every Body Continues In Its State Of Rest
Lucky
Marbles
Communion Afternoon
Cynophobia
Playing House
Dublin Can Be Heaven
Hames of a Haiku
Soldiers in the Battle for Hedonism
Atmospheric Physicist vs Poetic Atmosphericist
Estuary
Bruisewort
Bolivian Children
A Peruvian Blockade, According to Bolivia
Altitude
God Always Geometrises
Harmony of the Spheres
Airbowing in Second Violins
Watershed
Is It A Kind Of Bell Toll?
Legacy