The Drowning of the Saints

This collection introduces a young writer with a distinctive new voice, full of verve and promise. A past winner of the Hennessy New Writer of the Year Award, Paul Perry's collection is filled with sensual, lyrical, and beautifully crafted poems that

Paul Perry was born in Dublin in 1972. He won the Hennessy New Irish Writer of the Year Award in 1998. He received a B.A. in Comparative Literature from Brown University and has been a James Michener Fellow of Creative Writing at The University of Miami, and a C. Glenn Cambor Fellow of Poetry at The University of Houston. His work has appeared in numerous publications, including Poetry Ireland Review, Cyphers, TLS and The Best American Poetry 2000. He served as Writer in Residence for Co. Longford, from 2000-2002. In 2002, he won the Listowel Prize for Poetry. Currently, he is Writer in Residence for the University of Ulster

Blessed is the fruit	p. 13
The morning after Halloween	p. 15
The Red Dogs of Wicklow	p. 17
Of the gas stove and the glimmerman	p. 18
Rhapsody with owl	p. 21
The improbable flowers of Vizcaya	p. 24
The Walk	p. 26
On the avenue of the portal of angels #4	p. 27
On the avenue of the portal of angels #5	p. 28
The Incredulity of St. Thomas	p. 29
To Dexter Above	p. 30
The heretic that makes the fire	p. 32
The Straw Mannequin	p. 34
Tonight, the sea	p. 37
Ode to a Banjo	p. 39
In the Country Where It Is Always Winter	p. 41
Letters to a Stranger	p. 43
The Seducer's Diary	p. 44
Conjugation of a Mirror	p. 46
from the valley of dry bones	p. 48
The marks on the body	p. 51
Looking for beauty in a crab-pool	p. 53
River of Light	p. 54
Fill the room with lilies	p. 56
Sundays	p. 59
Apologia	p. 62
Seven days in Chicago	p. 64
Paris	p. 71
Oisin	p. 72
The Ring	p. 74
Slowly Home	p. 75
Leap Year Lake	p. 76
The bats at Annaghmakerrig	p. 78
A cemetery outside Chetumal	p. 79
Ferry from Gotland	p. 80
The Gate to Mulcahy's Farm	p. 82
After the Cabaret	p. 84
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The Drowning of the Saints

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