3 Review(s)

This third book of poems, like the two previous ones, comes from a lifetime of dedicated writing of poetry. The first collection, The Last lrish Romantic was launched by Gabriel Fitzmourice, the noied lrish poet, at the Listowel Literary Festival. He described the collection as a striking series of works reminiscent of T.S.Eliot and Michael Hartnett. The book was praised by the famous Dublin poet and publisher, Pat Boran, as "a truly distinctive debut volume"; and the noted British poet Bernard O'Donoghue described it as "brilliant". The second collection, Poems from Heartlands was published recently lt was innovative in that it contained both printed poems of note, but also hand-written poems wovgn into distinctive art work by the author. lt received fulsome praise. lt has been nominated for various awards, and has won the "Pinnacle Book Achievement Award". This latest collection collection, "Journey lnto Light: New Art Poems". continues, and even more so, that brilliant innovative approach, what the poet calls "new art poetry". Read it and be blown away by its brilliant and unique poetic quality and the striking related art work by the author. Dr C A Buckley (Fr. Con Buckley), is a graduate of St. Patrick's College Maynooth, and has a doctorate from Oxford University, where he specialized in modern American poetry. He has also published two prose works, Wheels of Light, and Learn from Me, and is busy finishing three novels, The Cottage, The Mountain, and The lsland. The first of these is about to be published by a London publisher, and the others will follow by whatever publisher takes them up.