Pandemonium by Thomas McCarthy Em Strang unputdownable first collection

unputdownable first collection

or when facing other extremes and anxieties

with startling humour and surprising combinations of homely and outlandish

Matthew Welton is a poet enchanted by form and process

Pandemonium by Thomas McCarthy Em Strang unputdownable first collectionWritten in the wake of Irelands 2008 economic collapse, Thomas McCarthys Pandemonium moves between lament and protest in search of a meaningful response in language. Many of the poems were written during a period of retreat along Irelands south west coast, a landscape that imbues McCarthys politics with geological intensity. The Atlantic horizon where the sun lies down in the west to die is mirrored inland by corruption and rot, a modern Ireland