Reviews: We Play Here; Some of these Stories are True; Lessons in Kindness; Dynamo
Formally assured and immensely readable, We Play Here takes its cues from Ciarán Carson’s acutely observed poems of Belfast city, and the magic realism of novelists such as Jan Carson, to create a new poetics of its own.Similarly conversational in tone is Maurice Devitt’s second collection,. The collection, more traditional in its form, revisits childhood memories and probes anecdotes in search of epiphanies.
There are love poems here too, with Puzzle extending its conceit to an expansive, metaphysical meditation on the world built within a relationship, and the methods used to guide one another: “ ... having first distracted you/ with a jagged island of difficult blue, your eyes/ Dani Gill is at her strongest when exploring the lived relationships between women, both familial and romantic by Dani Gill, takes a more minimalist approach, whittling its lyrics down to the bare bones. These are quiet but insistent meditations on the big themes in life that recognise a clean fragment can work to suggest a much more complex whole.
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