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.