Valparaiso
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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 poetsPoetry by individual poets
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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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