Wheel Paperback / softback
by Michael O'Neill
Paperback / softback
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Wheel, as the title suggests, is full of revolving perspectives and throughout Michael O'Neill's beautifully modulated second collection, the poetry turns on an axis of opposites: self and others, here and there, childhood and middle-age, the present and the past.
In the title-poem, an encounter with a tramp calls to mind the wheel of fortune; another poem depicts a 360° shot of a figure on a bridge; in yet another an adoption application prompts memories of circling a field.
Elsewhere, a boy's phantasmal arm brushes his ear as he bowls, the dead form a band of souls, a merry-go-round melts into a hoop of light, and the rings of a tree uprooted in a gale expose its age.
The poems often open out on to imagined states and virtual realities, and occasionally glimpse a dimension beyond time's whirligig.
Deft in its shifts of tone and formally skilful, Wheel is a powerful and affecting collection.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:88 pages
- Publisher:Arc Publications
- Publication Date:25/09/2008
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- ISBN:9781904614791
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:88 pages
- Publisher:Arc Publications
- Publication Date:25/09/2008
- Category:
- ISBN:9781904614791