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Alan Gillis’s third collection, Here Comes the Night, alert to the cracks in contemporary society, to crack and craic, by a young poet quickly becoming a real force.

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A Nest on the Waves, taking its title from the folk belief that petrels lay their eggs at sea, ruminates on themes of travel, leave-taking and displacement.

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Everyone is slowly going home.
The shadow of the pine
lies stretched and sprawled across the trodden sands.
The waterline creeps close.

I am watching my husband grow old —
the stoop in the lines of his bones,
the hesitant note in his gait
where once there was ease and strut.

This mirror his form holds to mine
is not how I want things to be.
It cancels the contract of life,
it stifles our birth-howl with clay.

But everyone is slowly going home.
The shadow of the pine
lies stretched and sprawled across the trodden sands.
The waterline creeps close.

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from The Ash and the Oak and the Wild Cherry Tree
by Kerry Hardie
Gallery Books
€11.95 paperback
€18.50 hardback
Publication date: June 2012