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Gangs of Shadow
by Michael O'Neill
When Michael O'Neill senses gangs / of shadow
half-beckoning from twilit water, the moment is eerily alluring as well as scary. Fusions of feeling recur throughout a book that has something of the dash
and darkness
praised in his poem 'Louis MacNeice', along with a strong responsiveness to the physical and visual experience of living. Formally adventurous and alert to change and movement, combining memorable phrasing with a reaching towards the unsayable, Gangs of Shadow brims with imagery of past, present and future; its poems seek to bear witness, and above all sing
.
Of his previous collection, Wheel, critics wrote:
‘… his poems are satisfying both as
records of the contemporary surface
world and as repositories of sudden,
deeper thought.’
The Tablet
‘Wheel reminds us just how subtle
a poet he is…’
TLS
Read a new poem and a 'deep note' on it by Michael O'Neill in Prac Crit
978-1906570-64-4 (pbk) £10.99
978-1906570-82-8 (hbk) £12.99
80pp
Published June 2014
