V. It Only Remains. Hie Understudies -- Pitcher Plants -- A Machine for Harvesting Olives -- Rehydrating Mushrooms -- A Roast -- Risotto -- Minty -- A Snail -- Katsu Ika Odori-don -- II. (Reproductions) -- Life Drawing: Jacob -- Poem for Bobby Kendall -- Rembrandt's Slaughtered Ox -- Vermeer's Supper at Emmaus -- Two Cabinets -- On the Principles of Alchemy -- Our Personal Papers -- The Barberini Faun: A Partial Reconstruction -- III. (Capriccio) -- Glitch City -- IV. (Still Lifes) -- A Grapefruit -- Pavlova -- The Meat-Shaped Stone -- Study of a Tomato -- Three Poems after Ori Gersht -- Pomegranate -- On Reflection -- Falling Bird -- Fidelity -- A Pumpkin -- V. (Landscapes) -- Salt Island -- A Terrible June -- A Small & Important Thing -- Ireland -- A Forest in the Czech Republic -- History -- It Only Remains.
Summary:
"In 'Minty', one of the typically charged and capacious poems in this eagerly-awaited debut collection, a mojito glass reflects: whatever grid of bricks & wood makes up the room we happen to be sitting in is dilated & wrapped around a single focal-point; whatever portion of the sky that happens to be visible through the window becomes a convex bowl. The weather also happens, as it always does, & passes on, & brings those other places where it falls into the orbit of the glass. 'To look up from Padraig Regan's words is to find oneself gently re-fitted into the world,' writes Vahni Capideo, praising Padraig Regan's 'awesome originality and honesty'. The poems of Some Integrity bring something new to the Irish lyric tradition. Queerness is a way of looking, a perspective, grounded in an awareness of the porous and provisional nature of our bodies. The book's social encounters and exchanges, its responses to the work of artists, its figures in a landscape, and its considerations of food and desire, work as capsule narratives and as an exhilarating extension of that lyric tradition."-- Back cover.
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