Description
In its celebration of Bring Everything, his recent collection, Metre saluted the ‘perfection of a mode that Peter has been working in previous books’. Nonetheless opens with similar, and similarly surprising, ‘takes’ on the landscape and conditions of contemporary Dublin, spiced this time with strong satiric flavours. It includes a spirited version of Giorgio Caproni’s ‘The Leavetaking of the Ceremonious Traveller’ and a broad, meditative title poem; it excels in a plurality of tones and voices. Language-led, and driven by a restless energy — poems of jagged, freer, fractured insights — the book swells to a crescendo in a series of workings and adaptations of older poems as they might appear in the mind of an imagined Irish writer. Peter Sirr’s resourceful, daring poetry possesses that space where ’round every corner,/ our own better lives catch fire’.