The Escape Artist By Padraig Rooney
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Rooney Padraig The Escape Artist First Edition Huddersfield Smith Doorstop Books 2006 Octavo 56 pages Original Softcover Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear Padraig Rooney born 1956 is an Irish poet short story writer and novelist who was born in Monaghan Ireland Rooney was born in Monaghan Ireland and studied at Maynooth College and at the Sorbonne He has travelled extensively all his life living in Paris Bangkok Yokohama Rome Budapest and latterly in Switzerland He was the recipient of two Irish Arts Council bursaries He has taught abroad for many years and currently resides in Switzerland as an IB English teacher He won the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award in 1986 the Poetry Business Book Pamphlet Competition in 2005 and the Strokestown International Poetry Prize in 2009 Wikipedia The Escape ArtistThe Irish poet Austin Clarke compared writing poetry to being loaded with chains just like Houdini and attempting to free oneself from them A group of the poems in this collection deals with Houdini and his imagined alter ego de Kolta both escapologists and the them of escape reverberates throughout the collection as a whole I wanted to solve the problem of the poet who does not have a natural constituency rooted in the local and the national such as Seamus Heaney began with My aim was to draw together different strands of my experience without falling into the trap of the exotic of mere local colour Anthony Burgess said of Rooney It is in order for an aging writer in a valediction to Irish readers to essay a prophecy about Irish letters Mr Rooney will I think be a credit to them From the back cover of the poems as Goodreads has nothing at all about them. The escape artist cast I loved this collection of poems I thought they were beautiful and in some cases moving I am not going to say anything else because I came to an understanding of why I have never developed the skill habit of reading poems and it came while watching a popular Sky Arts TV programme on Coleridge and Wordsworth I hate listening to people enthusing about poets poetry It goes back to schooldays poetry and poets attracted way bullshit than I could tolerate So I am not going to add to it My enjoyment of Rooney s poems is entirely personal I will not defend or justify it I will happily defend Rooney s one novel Oasis which I also loved But I am confident of why I love enjoy appreciate a work of prose. The escape artist by jonathan freedland If you don t read poetry but thought you might try some at a time in the future then consider reading some of Rooney s 9781902382852
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Padraig Rooney born 1956 is an Irish poet short story writer and novelist who was born in Monaghan Ireland..