Moya Cannon: 3 books

Written by the prizewinning Irish poet Moya Cannon, this collection explores the effects of time, change, migration, and travel-in both the human and the natural worlds. Sensuous and resonant, these poems are votive offerings that possess musicality and are sensitive to the functional qualities language.

Moya Cannon’s new collection reaches back into the long past, showing how traces left behind – textile fragments, buried thimbles, cave paintings – enable us to make imaginative connections with our distant ancestors, emphasising the commonalities of human lives lived many centuries apart. At...

Migrations-of birds, people, words, and songs-and the ravages of time are luminously explored in this wonderful collection of poems. At their core, the poems draw together the natural and human worlds through resonating, rhythmic prose. A selection of poems from the poet’s previous collections is also included.