Friday, September 20, 2019

The Gravity Wave





The Gravity Wave, the eleventh collection, a Poetry Book Society Autumn Recommendation, has just been published. The launch is next Thursday in Poetry Ireland, along with new books by Gerald Dawe, Medb mcGuckian and a John Montague Selected Poems.

Launch

Info about the book here

“I don’t want to count deer, I want/ to count in deer…” – Peter Sirr is as deliciously surprising as ever in Deer, Phoenix Park, one of the eight exceptionally fine sonnets which begin The Gravity Wave (Gallery €11.95). “Antler, Forest, Eyes,/ Stillness, Speed, Hide…I’d like/ this currency to fall between us/where we step invisibly from the car/slipped from ourselves to kneel/grass-lit and concentrated, close to a road/that keeps wobbling and clarifying/like the rim of the world or the end of speech.”

– Martina Evan, Irish Times review
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