Valparaiso

Name: Valparaiso
Brand: Carcanet Press Ltd
SKU: 9781847771353
Price: 1800 KES
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ISBN: 9781847771353

by Mary O'Malley

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 1847771351

ISBN-13 9781847771353

Publisher Carcanet Press Ltd

Imprint Carcanet Poetry

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date May 31st, 2012

Print length 96 Pages

Weight 124 grams

Dimensions 21.50 x 13.60 x 0.70 cms

Product Classification: Poetry / poems by individual poets Poetry by individual poets

KSh 1,800.00

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Valparaiso is a book begun on an Irish research ship on which Mary O’Malley was a resident poet. As the scientists chart a course dictated by their own researches, as Ireland is careering from boom into bust, O’Malley explores the science of going under and staying afloat. It is a book of searches and discoveries and, finally, of homecoming.

In 2007 Mary O’Malley made a voyage on the Irish marine research ship the Celtic Explorer. It took her far out into the Atlantic, and it returned her to a self and a country made strange. Valparaiso, a collection begun at sea, is a book of searches and discoveries, plumbing oceanic depths and returning to a shore that ‘marks the start of possibility’. The surge and swell of the sea sounds in it, a place of wonders where the imagination is freed. ‘What would sing in me is the deep ocean.’ As the scientists chart a course dictated by the demands of research, as Ireland is careering from boom to bust, Mary O’Malley explores the science of going under and staying afloat. She returns to an altered place, and is herself changed by an odyssey that has taken her around the Atlantic and Europe, into her past and back to a kind of homecoming.

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