By Alan Gillis

ISBN-10: 185235609X

ISBN-13: 9781852356095

ISBN-10: 1852356103

ISBN-13: 9781852356101

The poems in Alan Gillis's fourth assortment, Scapegoat, locate themselves at the fringe of the normal, wearing the ills and wonder of our occasions inside of themselves, forged among what's, and what can be. Epiphanies of impinging thoughts from formative years and early life turn into poems during which stories from Northern Ireland's prior vex the current, exploring issues of hope and worry, violence and disgrace, forgiveness and alter. different poems withstand the 'zeitgeist' of this day, with a moving mixture of humour and ire, love and turbulence. Veering among scabrous satires and hymns of compliment, dream-like fantasias and clear-eyed reckonings, Scapegoat unearths itself at the breaking point among civility and the wilds, striving to come back to phrases with the maelstrom of residing. With looking out intensity and vivacious exuberance, Scapegoat offers us the calm sooner than the typhoon, the wreckage after the hurricane, and, for the hell of it, the attention of the hurricane itself.

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