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Learning to Swim
Learning to Swim
Mary Rose Callan
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ISBN: 978-1-905374-10-6
Paperback: 76 pages
Price: €12 (+ P&P)
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In Learning to Swim Mary Rose Callan maintains her greatest strength, the ability to express what is unsayable in prose, using all the tools that take language beyond logic to a “felt” truth. There are many excellent lyrics here. All have in common an unassuming delicacy of tone. Never too emphatic, they palpate with feeling, often affording a glimpse only of some remembered emotion that still is “burning/white in my heart”.
Praise for Mary Rose Callan
‘Very spare, clean, and suggesting much more than its apparent content. We would like to quote a few lines, but no few lines in the book can stand alone and convey the life and feeling that the poems do. Her second book after The Mermaid´s Head, this is a rich and lovely collection, including a sequence as from a school teacher. She is a fine poet.’
Books Ireland, April 2005
‘This is Callan´s second collection of poetry. Whether pieces of memory or observation, her work always captures the “jewelled flaw in things”.’
The Black Mountain Review, 2005/6
