Everything is susceptible
Douglas Dunn, 20 March 1980
Poets from the North of Ireland
edited by Frank Ormsby.
Blackstaff, 232 pp., £6.50, October 1979,9780856402012 Show More
edited by Frank Ormsby.
Blackstaff, 232 pp., £6.50, October 1979,
“... as much as nature itself are the sources of his metamorphosising imagination. Unlike Ted Hughes or Seamus Heaney, he has never felt the need to make his diction coincide with the rugged or violent nature he depicts. In a previously uncollected poem, ‘A Kind of People’, he writes: Umbrellas and parasols, Like old navy raincoats, Sewing ... ”