
No Return Game
Tom Mathews(Author)
Dedalus Press
Published on 4. July 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
80 pages
978-1-906614-75-1 (ISBN)
Description
Tom Mathews has long been admired for his trademark wit and humour, for the combination of irreverence and formal inventiveness that has long since made him one of Ireland's most celebrated cartoonists. His debut collection of poems in 2009 showed him to be, in addition, a singular, inimitable presence in Irish poetry.
Taking its title from Beckett's 'Murphy', his follow-up, 'No Return Game', is at once an extension of his' considerable reach into (one might say infiltration of) Irish and particularly European art and literature, as it is also a deepening, and by times a darkening, of Matthews' own vision, the big questions of time and love, ageing and loss, faced (and sometimes faced down) but always present, the poet's evident love for language and life his constant companions and guiding stars.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Dublin
Ireland
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
black & white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 5 mm
Weight
95 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-906614-75-1 (9781906614751)
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