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'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
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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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