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    Passports
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    Passports

    By Tim Cunningham

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    ‘Tim Cunningham looks through a glass brightly singing the marriage of heaven and earth. His poems are a river through a desert of despair.’
    Gabriel Fitzmaurice

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLimerick Writers Centre
    Release dateApr 17, 2020
    ISBN9780463628324
    Passports
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    Tim Cunningham

    Tim Cunningham was born in Limerick and educated at C.B.S., Limerick, andBirkbeck College, London. He has worked mainly in education, in Dublin, Wiltshire, London, Delaware and Essex. Recently returned to Ireland, he lives in Westport,County Mayo.

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      Book preview

      Passports - Tim Cunningham

      PASSPORTS

      Tim Cunningham

      Copyright © Tim Cunningham 2020

      First published in Ireland by

      Revival Press

      Limerick, Ireland

      Revival Press is the poetry imprint of

      The Limerick Writers’ Centre

      12 Barrington Street, Limerick, Ireland

      www.limerickwriterscentre.com

      www.facebook.com/limerickwriterscentre

      All rights reserved

      No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages in a review.

      Book and Cover Design: Lotte Bender

      Ebook Formatting: Máire Baragry

      Photograph of Author: Eve Menezes Cunningham

      Managing Editor Revival Press: Dominic Taylor

      Available as an e-book at www.smashwords.com

      A CIP catalogue number for this publication is available from The British Library

      We acknowledge the support of The Limerick Writers’ Centre Community Publishing Project

      Dedication

      Alan, Claire and Eve

      CONTENTS

      A Summer Romance

      Following the Coal Carts

      Archangel Jimmy with a Firehose

      Diving from a High Bridge

      Catwalk

      Anthology

      Just A Minute

      Two Pigeons and a Blackbird

      Estuary Bird

      Rhapsody

      Leaf

      Those Autumn Beauties

      Long Leaf Pine

      Dead Fox on the Grass Verge

      Blood Moon

      Moontalk

      Full Moon through a Silver Birch

      A Winter of Content

      Threshold

      Angelica

      No Holy Pictures

      Who Will Speak for the Saints?

      Faith of our Mothers

      The Upper Room

      Nostalgia Day in Paradise

      The Poem on Page Eleven

      On the Way to the Canvas

      The Omega Prize

      Two Cygnets and a Swan

      Apologia for the Unwritten Anthology

      Love at the Zoo

      Directions to the Station

      The Colour of Love

      The Kiss of Peace

      The Bells of St. Munchins

      Prodigals

      Red Towel on a Beach

      Omega

      A Small Demise

      Withdrawal Symptoms

      Survivor

      Ebbing

      Pizzicato

      In a Spin

      Burning Joan

      Lucozade

      Semi-Tone

      Calor Gas

      Two Best Friends with Shovels

      The Ghost in the Lighthouse

      ‘How Is You?’

      A Liturgy of Light

      Hearing a Pin Drop

      Pin-Up, Italy 1944

      Three Helmets

      On Swords and Ploughshares

      The Lowing of Cattle

      Navvy

      Emigrant 2019

      A 20-20 Vision

      The Statue of St. Patrick

      Lady with a Cat

      Urban Regeneration

      The Security Form

      Passport

      Fracking into History

      Constellation

      Axis

      Lullaby

      Previous Publications

      Acknowledgements

      About the Author

      About Revival Press

      A SUMMER ROMANCE

      I loved you with a passion

      In the summer of ’48,

      That sepia patch beyond the cottage.

      I had never seen a bog before

      And it was love at first sight.

      Indelible those lawns of sphagnum moss,

      Reels and jigs of rush and meadow thistle,

      A spider’s stainless steel bridging bog cotton

      And asphodel,

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