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“To die like the skylark”

The Slain Birds by Michael Longley

October 13, 2022 by tiny_bookbot Leave a Comment

CBR Bingo: Bird I joked a couple years ago that the best day is Wake Forest Press Book Club Day, in part because you never know when it’s going to happen. Wake Forest Press focuses on publishing Irish poetry, particularly the Irish poets who aren’t, say, Seamus Heaney or Eavan Boland and claimed by a Big Five publisher. Because it’s a small operation, books come out a bit irregularly and also during the pandemic, shipments were sometimes oddly spaced (I once got three volumes all […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: cbr14bingo, irish poetry, Michael Longley, poetry

tiny_bookbot's CBR14 Review No:26 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: cbr14bingo, irish poetry, Michael Longley, poetry ·
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