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My Life as a Painter, Paperback / softback Book

My Life as a Painter Paperback / softback

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Matthew Sweeney's palette in My Life as a Painter - his twelfth collection - features a wild mix of birds and animals: lizards, snakes, rats, camels, donkeys, feral cats, dogs and owls.

One dog transmits telepathic requests for the food he wants, and there's a parrot who speaks as ambassador for the bird world.

Sweeney's canvas here is the transhuman: where boundaries between human and non-human can't be fixed, dreams turn into torments, secrets stay hidden, strange communiques remain unclear, and the natural weirdness of his native Donegal verges on the surreal.

There are poems ostensibly about art, artists and filmmaking which are as much portraits of the poet and the difficulties of writing poetry.

Other poems offer oblique perspectives on religion, warfare, migration and displacement; or go off at a tangent to explore the imaginative possibilities of everything from Michigan's Mullett Lake and the geysers of Iceland to rope-ladders, tin-mines, a giant blue cabbage and an old thrown-out Christmas tree.

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