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    Making Music
    Making Music
    Making Music
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    Making Music

    By Patrick Cotter

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    "All the more refreshing, then, to find a poet working within the "village" of contemporary poets but in a voice all his own; one which is unfashionable in the best sense. Internationalism breathes vigour into this work."
    - Fiona Sampson in The Irish Times.

    "Keeping the company of angels might bring grief to any poet, but Cotter is an adroit and knowing Artist; his verse is as likely to be soiled by a passing pigeon as enchanted by ethereal beings. He is after all, a disciple of German poetry. Rilke was Cotter's first angel when he was a youthful poet, though his language became as dark as a cadaverin a page from Gottfried Benn as he matured. Angels in this book have guarded him from the nest of rats below the diaphragm, from decay and corpses; though not from death."

    - Thomas McCarthy in Poetry Ireland Review

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPatrick Cotter
    Release dateMar 23, 2011
    ISBN9781873548554
    Making Music
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    Patrick Cotter

    Patrick Cotter was born in Cork, Ireland in 1963. He works for the Munster Literature Centre where he curates major international literary awards and festivals. Prior to Making Music he has published several chapbooks and one full-length collection Perplexed Skin. His translations (with Taavi Tatsi) of the Estonian surrealist Andres Ehin are collected in the volume Moosebeetle Swallow. He is also the editor of Irish Vegetarian Cookery.

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