In
Conor O'Callaghan's first collection the poems occupy different
thresholds: between stillness and motion, shade and light, shape
and shapelessness.
Ordinary
symbols such as room, house, garden, and road, are rendered less
reliable by shifts of time and tenses.
But The History of Rain is united ultimately by an awareness of elemental
forces, of how those forces can influence experience, and by the poet's
constant need to arrest moments when history and the individual glance against
each other.
