Books

THE JOURNEY

Seán Body

Lapwing Publications

ISBN 978-1-910855-90-4

Price £10

A wide ranging collection, from the deeply personal

to the public – celebration, grief, war, disablement,

the marginalised and the dispossessed – from delight

at a longed for birth to the elegiac.

SHOULDERING BACK THE DAY

Seán Body

Lapwing Publications
ISBN 978-1-909252-31-8

Price £10.00

Seán Body’s new collection of poems cultivates a
powerful sense of presence and loss. It is composed
of striking individual pieces and of sequences where
the space between utterance echoes with significance
and possibility… His language is its own unsentimental
and sensual music: rich, compassionate and precise.
His touch is light, his realisations tentative as farewell
gestures. These are beautiful and moving poems. He is
an astonishingly good poet.
-Graham Mort