Smell Of Fish
The poems in A Smell of Fish connect and radiate like the spokes of a wheel: haiku, sestinas, poems beginning with a line by somebody else or sparked off by foreign travel, a version of Dante, a sea sequence set on the Suffolk coast, and - long overdue - Matthew Sweeney''s own version of the old Irish poem where his namesake is turned into a bird.
In this, his seventh collection, we are back in a w...
The poems in A Smell of Fish connect and radiate like the spokes of a wheel: haiku, sestinas, poems beginning with a line by somebody else or sparked off by foreign travel, a version of Dante, a sea sequence set on the Suffolk coast, and - long overdue - Matthew Sweeney''s own version of the old Irish poem where his namesake is turned into a bird.
In this, his seventh collection, we are back in a w...
