Playing the Octopus

by Mary O'Malley and Mary O'Malley

In Playing the Octopus, her eighth collection of poems, Mary O'Malley's sensitivity to the spirit of Ireland's west coast is as attuned as ever. In a world both earthen and dreamlike, bodily and mythical, a trout is seen to 'swallow light through his skin', a wolf 'howls the great open vowel of his need', and in the emptiness where a tree once stood, 'a tree-shaped brightness dances'. Over the course of the collection, O'Malley twins the Irish...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1784102806
• ISBN13: 9781784102807
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Carcanet Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.1" x 8.4"