Summary
Pattern-book: Poems Woven with Life and Light
Jon McGregor writes: ‘In these wonderful, breath-stopping and heart-enlarging poems, Éireann Lorsung asks only that we pay close attention – to the text, to the world, to the way the world becomes note by note the text – while she pays close attention alongside us. These are poems conducted at ground level, at walking pace, attentive to the changing of the light, of the seasons, of the certainties we thought we were growing up with. Here…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781800174856 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1800174853 |
| Author: | Éireann Lorsung |
| Publisher: | Carcanet Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | Carcanet Poetry |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 108 |
| Release Date: | 28 May 2025 |
| Weight: | 166g |
| Dimensions: | 147mm x 243mm x 180mm |
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Critics Review
‘In her vibrant and stirring UK debut, Lorsung offers a mesmerising portrait of the silent patterns that paint our world. From the sprinkle of snow across a sidewalk to the scatter of crumbs on a tablecloth, each metaphor in this collection unfolds like a mural, deliciously rich in colour, texture and tone.’Jade Cuttle, The Observer
‘Her technical pattern-book is far from rigidly formal: the shaping of poems is a larger enterprise, though disciplined, and the patterning of her own world, present and past, expresses itself in a multiplicity of images that connect across geographical space and time, childhood, family, landscape.’Carol Rumens, The Guardian
‘Pattern-Book is also extraordinary, because in its poems, “life / continues,” steady and shifting, the same and changing, lit by mortality from one side and by love from the other.’Jane Zwart, Plume
About The Author
Éireann Lorsung
Éireann Lorsung was born and grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She works and teaches in a field of images, objects, movement and texts. Her collections include Music for Landing Planes By, Her book, and The Century (Milkweed Editions). She moved to Ireland in 2022 to teach writing at University College Dublin.
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