Ros Cowman on Philip Casey’s new poetry collection, The Year of the Knife
THE HIDDEN WEDDING OF THINGS
THIS collection of a decade of Philip Casey’s previous poems includes work chosen from two previous collections: eight poems from Those Distant Summers (1980), and fourteen from After Thunder (1985). The third part of the collection, The Year […]
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This proportioning of the book reflects a growth in Casey’s work, a development of themes which, in the early work, are not yet explored.
Much of this growth takes place through the increasing power of language, and Casey writes in a language which is supple, accurate, sensitive and immensely strong, and which stretches to develop complexities […]
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