- Editorial:
- LIMERICK WRITER'S CENTRE
- Año de edición:
- 2021
- Materia
- Poetry
- ISBN:
- 978-1-8380926-3-4
- Encuadernación:
- paperback
ARIAS OF CONSOLATION
LIDDY, JOHN
Across eight movements, Arias of Consolation by John Liddy is an epic poem. Beautifully embellished with work by the renowned artist John Shinnors, it is, arguably, the most important poem written about Limerick since the publication of Bard Hogans Drunken Thady and The Bishops Lady in 1861. Given the citys long tradition of musicality, stretching from its smoky dancehalls on the Ballysimon Road and Mulgrave Street to the sean-nos inflected voice of The Cranberries Dolores ORiordan; from its many musical societies to the Hip Hop of the Rusangano Family; from the Plain Chant recitals led by Professor King Griffin to the sublime voice of Denise Chaila, it is entirely fitting that Liddy has used the term Aria and the ghost voices of many singers surface in the poem. (from the Foreword by Eoin Devereux)
