A Walled Garden in Moylough [Paperback]

Joan McBreen (Author)

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After Osip Mandelstam
Ben Bulben
Bog-cotton
The Clean Slice
Dream Of Poet And Child
Eanach Cuain
Feathering The Room
Fionnuala
Girl
Hanging Wallpaper
Heart In A Black Bowl
In A Surburban Garden On Christmas Night
In The Brief Time Given
In The Daughter's Room
The Inner Room
The Iris Garden
Lettergesh
The Little Street
The Loost Brooch
The Mahogany Mirror In My Mother's Room
Moore Hall In September
The Mountain Ash
The Nest
The Notebook
On Hearing My Daughter Play The Swan
On Reading Your Letter In June
One For Sorrow
The Photograph Of My Aunts
Possibilities
Rose Cottage Finisklin, C 1955
The Silken Robe
Snow In September
Someone Should Tell My Mother
This Light, This Silence
Veronica
Walking Barefoot On White Feathers
A Walled Garden In Moylough
Watches
Winding The Wool
Woman Herding Cattle In A Field Near Kilcolgan
Woman Watching The Door
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Product Details

• Paperback: 80 pages
• Publisher: Story Line Press; First edition. edition (April 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1885266073
• ISBN-13: 978-1885266071
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,431,876 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Walled Garden in Moylough, August 7, 2008

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Jean Kavanagh "Jean@Salmon" (Cliffs of Moher) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Walled Garden in Moylough. (Paperback)

The gift of Joan McBreen's poetry is her ability to distill the essence of a moment, and bring its unique insight as a flame to light the darkness of our understanding. She does this with an effortless elegance, a sure touch, and a lyric voice which is attuned to the inward echoes of the psyche. In an article in the Washington Review American poet Paul Genega has written of her work, "...one is struck by the lyrical magic of the language, the precision of the diction, the absolute rightness of each and every word. There is a simplicity and straight-forwardness to McBreen's poems, but it is the simplicity of a pleasing, inviting facade, behind which lie nuances of association, emotion and meaning." McBreen's poems "...have a haunting quality that lingers and beckons the reader to return to them. They are poems of place and home and moment, unmistakably connected to the concrete world, each drawn from some special recognition of an object or event that extends beyond the poet's life into our own. Kathleen Cain, The Bloomsbury Review

JOAN McBREEN is from Sligo; she now lives in Tuam, County Galway. Her poetry collections are The Wind Beyond the Wall (Story Line Press, Oregon, 1990; reprinted 1991) and A Walled Garden in Moylough (Story Line Press and Salmon Poetry, Galway, 1995). Her most recent collection, Winter in the Eye: New & Selected Poems, has just been published by Salmon (April 2003). In 1997 she was awarded an MA in Women's Studies by University College, Dublin, presenting A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Irish Women Poets as her dissertation. Her poetry is published widely in Ireland and abroad and has been broadcast, anthologised and translated into many languages. Her anthology The White Page/An Bhileog Bhan -- Twentieth Century Irish Women Poets was published by Salmon Poetry in 1999 (reprinted 2000, 2001).