The Blue Guitar Myra Schneider

The Blue Guitar Myra Schneider"In these dynamic, musically arcing poems, Padraig O'Morain weaves his subtle, capturing narratives with the skill and relish of a natural story teller. The poems in The Blue Guitar conjure all at once both the pathos of the individual human situation and all the echoes of the wider world beyond." Jane Draycott Praise for Padraig O'Morain's poetry: "This is a quiet poetry, strong with the humours and occasional horrors of country life, affectionate

There are two main strengths to this poetry

translated from the Finnish by Mike Horwood

an extract translated by Paul Batchelor

Their literature is already a subject for university study and although we were wary about using such a label of “hyphenated” identification

lonely and shy

and finding refuge no easy matter

violence and oppression

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people and poetry

which never fails to tell us something about the strange business of being alive

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