PROPHETSTOWN by Ciarán O'Rourke MacGillivray Andrew Motion’s new collection gives

Andrew Motion’s new collection gives a moving account of the friction and interplay between past and present

fired by his belief that there is no unsurmountable solitude

which is when he began writing poetry

he also edited The Faber Book of Contemporary Caribbean Short Stories and published 'Is English We Speaking' and other essays

PROPHETSTOWN by Ciarán O'Rourke MacGillivray Andrew Motion’s new collection givesFinely crafted and ethically charged, Ciarn O'Rourke's third collection of poetry, Prophetstown, blends lyric power and searching sensitivity in its examination of the conflicts and contradictions of twenty first century civilization. O'Rourke casts an unflinching eye over the devastations of recent history, even as he celebrates the capacities and solaces of the poetic vocation itself. The result is a humane and radically engaged mode of eco poetic