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    Speechless At Inch
    Speechless At Inch
    Speechless At Inch
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    Speechless At Inch

    By James Caruth

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    This substantial collection by James Caruth brings together remarkable new work along with several key poems from previous pamphlets. Speechless at Inch is a varied but coherent collection by a distinctive writer at the height of his powers.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe Poetry Business
    Release dateAug 18, 2021
    ISBN9781912196883
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      Book preview

      Speechless At Inch - James Caruth

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      Speechless at Inch

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      Published 2021 by The Poetry Business

      Campo House,

      54 Campo Lane,

      Sheffield S1 2EG

      www.poetrybusiness.co.uk

      Copyright © James Caruth 2021

      The moral rights of the author have been asserted.

      ISBN 978-1-912196-87-6

      eBook ISBN 978-1-912196-88-3

      All rights reserved.

      Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise), without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book.

      Designed & typeset by The Poetry Business.

      Printed by Imprint Digital.

      Cover Image: Janet Mullarney, The Straight and Narrow, 1991, Painted wood, 228 x 320 x 137 cm, Collection Irish Museum of Modern Art, Purchase, 1992

      British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data.

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

      Smith|Doorstop is a member of Inpress

      www.inpressbooks.co.uk.

      Distributed by NBN International, 1 Deltic Avenue,

      Rooksley, Milton Keynes MK13 8LD.

      The Poetry Business gratefully acknowledges the support of Arts Council England.

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      Contents

      The Bangor Blackbird

      North

      February is Over

      Note

      Three Little Birds

      Pigeon Lofts, Penistone Road

      Rare & Racy

      A Harvest of Stones

      The Old Faiths

      Listen

      Grave Goods

      The Irish Yew at Cromford

      Beatitudes

      Stoop

      Above Redmires

      Apostle

      Eight Days

      The Christmas Rhymers

      From the Chinese

      The Art of Distance

      Marking the Lambs

      Considering Grief

      Snow

      The House

      A First Glimpse of Snow

      Once More

      Found Poem

      Rain

      Dublin Beat

      This Poem

      Constance Markievicz at Stephen’s Green

      Tunes Played on a Penny Whistle

      Six Degrees

      Lissadell

      Glendalough

      Gallarus

      Speechless at Inch

      Son

      I am Invisible in the Dark

      Love Lines

      The Photograph

      All Roads Lead Home

      The Temple Jar

      Bewleys

      The Seagram Murals

      There are Many Ways to Hypnotise a Chicken

      Resolution

      Snapshot

      from Dark Peak

      Creed

      Offertory

      Pater Noster

      Lagán

      Belfast

      The Deposition

      Milltown Sequence

      Coast Road, North Antrim

      Dinner with Sharon Olds

      A Step Away

      Tranquil

      Recurring

      The Old Austerities

      Dreams of Donegal

      The Down Shore

      The Demesne

      Bangor

      New Year

      The Last

      New Year in Arras

      In memory of Steve and Matthew

      The Bangor Blackbird

      after 9th century Irish

      A desolate song rings over the Lough:

      a blackbird in a hawthorn bush,

      unsettled in the gloom of

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