Paintings by Giorgio de Chirico and Rene Magritte provide a springboard for Ciaran O'Driscoll's engagement with the theme of surrealism. He moves from art to surreal aspects of the contemporary world, in particular war and the increasing isolation of the individual in a greed-driven society. These poems are stories, anecdotes and impressions relayed through various voices. Dark absurdities and contradictions, banalities and pretensions are exposed by O'Driscoll's characteristically cutting wit, and here and there a beacon of hard-won hope lights a way through the globalising gloom. "He transforms...details of solitude into a semi-surrealist vision of our world. We need such hard-won high spirits." - John Montague. "Ciaran O'Driscoll is a poet of the first order." - Pearse Hutchinson, "The RTE Guide".
- ISBN10 0954244389
- ISBN13 9780954244385
- Publish Date 6 June 2006
- Publish Status Unknown
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Pighog
- Imprint Pighog Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 40
- Language English