| Author: | Patrick Cotter | ISBN: | 9781873548554 |
| Publisher: | Patrick Cotter | Publication: | March 23, 2011 |
| Imprint: | Smashwords Edition | Language: | English |
| Author: | Patrick Cotter |
| ISBN: | 9781873548554 |
| Publisher: | Patrick Cotter |
| Publication: | March 23, 2011 |
| Imprint: | Smashwords Edition |
| Language: | English |
"All the more refreshing, then, to find a poet working within the "village" of contemporary poets but in a voice all his own; one which is unfashionable in the best sense. Internationalism breathes vigour into this work."
- Fiona Sampson in The Irish Times.
"Keeping the company of angels might bring grief to any poet, but Cotter is an adroit and knowing Artist; his verse is as likely to be soiled by a passing pigeon as enchanted by ethereal beings. He is after all, a disciple of German poetry. Rilke was Cotter's first angel when he was a youthful poet, though his language became as dark as a cadaverin a page from Gottfried Benn as he matured. Angels in this book have guarded him from the nest of rats below the diaphragm, from decay and corpses; though not from death."
- Thomas McCarthy in Poetry Ireland Review
"All the more refreshing, then, to find a poet working within the "village" of contemporary poets but in a voice all his own; one which is unfashionable in the best sense. Internationalism breathes vigour into this work."
- Fiona Sampson in The Irish Times.
"Keeping the company of angels might bring grief to any poet, but Cotter is an adroit and knowing Artist; his verse is as likely to be soiled by a passing pigeon as enchanted by ethereal beings. He is after all, a disciple of German poetry. Rilke was Cotter's first angel when he was a youthful poet, though his language became as dark as a cadaverin a page from Gottfried Benn as he matured. Angels in this book have guarded him from the nest of rats below the diaphragm, from decay and corpses; though not from death."
- Thomas McCarthy in Poetry Ireland Review
