Slower

Overview

These evocations of wilderness and the natural world draw on the author's experience living for a year on Inishmore, one of the Aran Islands off the west coast of Ireland. In the tradition of William Butler Yeats, the poems look to Celtic traditions, are sometimes formal in structure, rely on straightfoward and striking language, and change in mood from joy to rage to elegy.

Reviews

"Work well worth praising: verbally sharp, about things out in the real world . . . and written in a tough and flexible language." —Tears in the Fence magazine

Author Biography

Andrew McNeillie is the literature editor at Oxford University Press. His collection of poems Nevermore was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 2000, and he is the author of the memoir An Aran Keening.