Oar / Moya Cannon.
- Oldcastle (Co. Meath) : The Gallery press, 2000. - 52 p. ;
22 cm. - (Gallery books).
ISBN 1-85235-263-9
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Le recueil de Moya Cannon est
une invitation au voyage — dans les terres de l'ouest irlandais
dont elle restitue avec acuité les couleurs, les senteurs
et les bruits : Thrown up / on the stones /
in a bad November, / tree stump / returned from an
exile / amongst fish and cormorants. (Tree Stump, p. 23).
Mais la visée est ultramontaine,
la perspective ouverte. Les coques noires qui transportent
la tourbe du Connemara sont sœurs des embarcations homériques ;
Carna évoque Ithaque (Turf boats, p. 24) et
l'Atlantique se fond dans Thalassa (Thalassa, p. 21).
L'aviron qui donne son titre au recueil fend l'espace
et le temps, et c'est au terme du voyage seulement qu'il se fait
entendre, For only then will you need to tell and know /
that the sea is immense and unfathomable, / that the oar
that pulls / against the wave / and with the wave /
is everything (Oar, p. 20).
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Listening Clay
There are sounds
that we can,
and do, trust ;
a gale in the trees,
the soft click of stones, where the tide falls back,
a baby crying in the night.
No one has ever mocked these
sounds,
or tried to comprehend them.
They are too common to be bought or sold,
they were here before the word,
and have no significance in law.
Endlessly repeated,
immutable,
they are sounds without a history.
They comfort and disturb
the clay part of the heart.
p. 53
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Moya Cannon was born in Dunfanaghy in Co. Donegal
in 1956. She studied history and politics at University College,
Dublin, and at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
She was Writer-in-Residence at
Trent University, Ontario, in 1994-95 and editor of Poetry
Ireland Rewiew in 1995. She teaches in a school for adolescent
travellers in Galway. The Gallery Press also publishes The
Parchment Boat (1997).
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| mise-à-jour : 10 mai 2005 |
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