Pigeon Songs is Derry-born Eoghan Wall's second collection of poems from Seren after his much-praised debut, The Salt Harvest. From the first piece, 'Angry Birds' we have a sense of the poet's themes and preoccupations; we have a richly metaphorical and densely allusive style, a pull towards formal metre and structures, most often the sonnet or a proto-sonnet with couplets, as here. There is also the occasional vigorous vulgarity, adding a touch of...
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