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THIRST

'a most impressive first book . . . intelligent, good-humoured and very gifted'
       
Ben Sonnenberg, Thumbscrew

'remarkable artistry and ingenuity . . . places its author at the head of Ireland's flotilla of younger poets.'
                                                   —
Des O'Rawe, The Irish Review

'From what I've read of his work he seems to be among the most scrupulous as well as original, of younger poets.'
                                                   — John Boland, The Irish Times

DAVID WHEATLEY
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Sleepwalking, a skinned rabbit, litter, a Chinese play, and an Irish alchemist are just some of the subjects of David Wheatley's first book. Containing poems of childhood, travel, rural and, in particular, urban experience, Thirst submits the familiar and the strange alike to the workings of an enquiring, restless sensibility. A distinctive and formally assured debut, the collection is ultimately unified as its title suggests by a thirst for experience in all its richness and variety.


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