Full tide: A miscellany

Coady, Michael

Literature & Fiction

Relay

Oven Lane

Poetry

GALLERY BOOKS

Michael Coady's rich compendium incorporates poetry, story, illustration and memoir to reflect the interlocking and overlapping territories of people and place, time and memory. This moving work involves colloquial voices and utterance from the Irish tradition and affirms an inheritance which includes emigration and pilgrimage to the United States. All Souls centres on the long title poem, an afterhours stumble homewards encountering the living and the dead, and 'The Use of Memory', a heartbreaking restoration of the lives of two mothers lost in childbirth and a father and son adrift on the tides of dislocation, poverty and pain. Chronicler and celebrant, Michael Coady has shaped a book of unusual integrity, inviting us to enter its world and concerns.

All Souls (Gallery Books)

Michael Coady's rich compendium incorporates poetry, story, illustration and memoir to reflect the interlocking and overlapping territories of people and place, time and memory. This moving work involves colloquial voices and utterance from the Irish tradition and affirms an inheritance which includes emigration and pilgrimage to the United States. All Souls centres on the long title poem, an afterhours stumble homewards encountering the living and the dead, and 'The Use of Memory', a heartbreaking restoration of the lives of two mothers lost in childbirth and a father and son adrift on the tides of dislocation, poverty and pain. Chronicler and celebrant, Michael Coady has shaped a book of unusual integrity, inviting us to enter its world and concerns.

Dufour Editions

One Another

MICHAEL COADY'S "One Another is a welcome and worthy successor to his much-loved "All Souls. Poetry, prose, and illustration are integrated in a cumulative work of gravity and compassion. The title poem is prelude to a set of variations on motifs of community, mortality and memory, emerging from an intimately known anchorage of place. The writer's voice is joined by a chorale of "overheard" communal tones, in oral mode and various moods. The book's inclusive reach finds room for play, as in 'Textament, ' or its guest versions of 'The Gift of Tongues.' A personal crisis deepens perspective and heralds renewal in 'The Place of Hurt and Healing.' The human interplay of unsung lives and destinies suffuses "One Another "in the carnal war / with time that's always lost / but never conceded."

Going by Water

The Gallery Press

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