Thursday 16 September 2021

ANGEL HOUR by CIARAN O'DRISCOLL

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CONTENTS



1. ELEMENTS



A Single Sound 


The Wrong Kind of Dog


A Zen of Wasps


Sometimes Rain Comes Like This


Olm


Kiss


Islets




2. ANGEL HOUR



The See-Through Poet


My Builder’s Opinion of Light


Fairies


On the Anniversary of a Disappearance


Close Call


The Heart in the Wall


The Man Who Went to Emmaus 


Angel Hour




3. HARD LINES



The Strange Behaviour of Light


Budapest Quartet


Rip            


The Copper Mines of Peru


Poems That Mean Something Else


Concerning the Silence in These Parts


Breath


Nothing Happened                                    




4. HALFWAY HEAVENWARDS



Old Possum’s Stray


Frost on a Snowy Evening


Stony Grey Owl


A Fly


Johann Joachim Quantz’s Other Lesson


Dead Recital


Teaching ‘The Schoolmaster’


Catch

Uncreative Pages



5. INTERIOR MAN




6.  JOURNEYS




Man in Field Talking to Cows


Once Upon October


Flight Hazard


The Threshold of Quiet


For Voyagers


Tunnels



7. PSYCHE



Man with a Mission 


Therapy 


My Terracotta Buddha


A Displacement


Sublime Subliminality


Head


Psyche


Sonnet for My Wife at 08.15


Gloss




I acknowledge with thanks two Arts Council Travel and Training Awards to take part in a Golden Boat Workshop Translation Project in Skocjan and Ljubljana, Slovenia, in 2011, and in the Izrekanja Poetry Festival, Celje, Slovenia, in 2019.


Thanks also to the Ireland Literature Exchange for a Translators’ Bursary towards the translation of a selection of my poems, Nadzorovanje Zviljenja (Life Monitor), into Slovene in 2012; to the translators, Iztok Osojnik and Veronika Dintinjana, and the publishers, Kud France Preseren.


Thanks to Fernando Trilli and Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin of Immagini d’Irlanda in Umbria, and to the Commune di Magione, Umbria, for invitations to take part in the Riflessi DiVersi Festival of Poetry in 2013, 2015 and 2017, to Iztok Osojnik for two inspirational occasions when I attended his Golden Boat Workshop.