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Acknowledgements Acknowledgements are due to the editors and publishers of Irish Pages, Poetry Ireland Review, New Hibernia Review, PN Review, Cyphers, IASIL Journal of Irish Studies, Blood Orange Review, Japanese Journal of Irish Studies, Windharp, Connemara and Aran, The Strokestown Anthology, Reading the Future and Fermata. The author wishes to thank Aosdána and the Arts Council of Ireland for their continued, invaluable support. First published in Great Britain in 2019 by Carcanet Alliance House, 30 Cross Street Manchester m2 7aq www.carcanet.co.uk Text copyright © Moya Cannon 2019 The right of Moya Cannon to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act of 1988; all rights reserved. A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN 978 1 78410 787 1 Book design by Andrew Latimer Printed in Great Britain by SRP Ltd, Exeter, Devon The publisher acknowledges financial assistance from Arts Council England.
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contents Island Corrie 3 At Three Castles Head We Catch Our Breath 4 Four Herds of Deer 5 Flowers Know Nothing of Our Grief 6 Mal’ta Boy, 22,000 BC 7 The Idiot 9 Exile 11 One of the most foolish questions… 12 Bread 13 Graffiti Makes Nothing Happen 14 Sand Martins at Shanganagh 15 A Three-Seal Morning 17 At Shankill Beach 18 Winter Morning, the Irish Sea 19 Returns 20 Ailsa Craig 21 Neighbour 23 Donegal Tarantella 26 The Boy who Swapped a Bog for a Gramophone 27 Glencomcille Soundtrack 29 ‘Songs last the longest…’ 30 Where is Music Stored 32 The Records 33 A Sentimental Education 35 The Countermanding Order, 1916 37 October 1945 39 Hard Lessons 40 All the Living 41 St Patrick’s Well, Orvieto 43 The Coimbra Librarians 44 Spoons 45

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Island Corrie 3 At Three Castles Head We Catch Our Breath 4 Four Herds of Deer 5 Flowers Know Nothing of Our Grief 6 Mal’ta Boy, 22,000 BC 7 The Idiot 9 Exile 11 One of the most foolish questions… 12 Bread 13 Graffiti Makes Nothing Happen 14 Sand Martins at Shanganagh 15 A Three-Seal Morning 17 At Shankill Beach 18 Winter Morning, the Irish Sea 19 Returns 20 Ailsa Craig 21 Neighbour 23 Donegal Tarantella 26 The Boy who Swapped a Bog for a Gramophone 27 Glencomcille Soundtrack 29 ‘Songs last the longest…’ 30 Where is Music Stored 32 The Records 33 A Sentimental Education 35 The Countermanding Order, 1916 37 October 1945 39 Hard Lessons 40 All the Living 41 St Patrick’s Well, Orvieto 43 The Coimbra Librarians 44 Spoons 45

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