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Going Around with Bachelors a selection of poems from Going Around with Bachelors by Agnes Walsh
Going Around with Bachelors, poems written and read by Agnes Walsh
Ballads sung by Simone Savard-Walsh
Listening Time: Approx. 70 minutes
13-digit ISBN: 978-1-894078-56-6
A BRICK BOOKS PUBLICATION
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This digital download is made available through Rattling Books courtesy of Brick Books and the author.
The spirit of the departed—source, origin, heritage, history—is the essence of this poetry, rich with the tang of Newfoundland speech. Agnes Walsh's first collection of poems, In the Old Country of My Heart, is one of the best loved poetry works to come out of Newfoundland. Going Around with Bachelors extends Walsh's distinctive subject matter: the past in the present, Ireland and Portugal in Newfoundland, weather internal and external, the Cape Shore.
Here are poems of place and of people in place, of family both immediate and extended. They are also absolutely contemporary poems by a poet gifted with a remarkably flexible and distinctive voice, who is planted, in her own words, "straight up and down into what's new."
REVIEWS
Walsh's poetry is like nothing else you will read: 'clean as a shriek,' declarative, funny in all the unexpected places, full of unadorned wisdom and bone-naked sadness. There is no word for what you will find here—the closest we have is truth.
—Lisa Moore
As Walsh explores her home and its past, or travels to Ireland or Portugal, she adheres to a phrase from Mary Oliver that she quotes at the beginning of one poem: 'the usual is news enough.' In these poems Walsh's usual becomes a thing of great and enduring beauty.
—The Star Phoenix
Me and Ye is pure oral and aural delight.
—The Chronicle Herald
Hearing Walsh’s work performed is a mesmerizing experience, for the rhythms of the poems themselves, the power of their narratives, and for the experience of listening to Walsh’s rich reading voice.
—Mark Callanan, The Independent
Ballads sung by Simone Savard-Walsh
Listening Time: Approx. 70 minutes
13-digit ISBN: 978-1-894078-56-6
A BRICK BOOKS PUBLICATION
For the book with accompanying CD, visit Brick Books.
This digital download is made available through Rattling Books courtesy of Brick Books and the author.
The spirit of the departed—source, origin, heritage, history—is the essence of this poetry, rich with the tang of Newfoundland speech. Agnes Walsh's first collection of poems, In the Old Country of My Heart, is one of the best loved poetry works to come out of Newfoundland. Going Around with Bachelors extends Walsh's distinctive subject matter: the past in the present, Ireland and Portugal in Newfoundland, weather internal and external, the Cape Shore.
Here are poems of place and of people in place, of family both immediate and extended. They are also absolutely contemporary poems by a poet gifted with a remarkably flexible and distinctive voice, who is planted, in her own words, "straight up and down into what's new."
REVIEWS
Walsh's poetry is like nothing else you will read: 'clean as a shriek,' declarative, funny in all the unexpected places, full of unadorned wisdom and bone-naked sadness. There is no word for what you will find here—the closest we have is truth.
—Lisa Moore
As Walsh explores her home and its past, or travels to Ireland or Portugal, she adheres to a phrase from Mary Oliver that she quotes at the beginning of one poem: 'the usual is news enough.' In these poems Walsh's usual becomes a thing of great and enduring beauty.
—The Star Phoenix
Me and Ye is pure oral and aural delight.
—The Chronicle Herald
Hearing Walsh’s work performed is a mesmerizing experience, for the rhythms of the poems themselves, the power of their narratives, and for the experience of listening to Walsh’s rich reading voice.
—Mark Callanan, The Independent
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