A Tour of Your Country Arnold Rattenbury

A Tour of Your Country Arnold RattenburyIn his most wide ranging work to date, Eamonn Wall probes and meditates on the histories, habitations, landscapes and ecologies of ancestral and newly encountered places. A Tour of Your Country takes the reader from the American West to the Arctic to Wall's native Wexford, and to some spaces in between. Throughout, the poems record and explore the finely tuned tension that exists between the road and home, between routes and roots, and between the

found poems and the inheritors of a confessional poetics [

David McDuff (Stand Magazine) writes of her "

unrequited desire

as Sasha Dugdale points out in her introduction

The non-transparent water shows time

their influence on Lenin and the Russian Revolution

many not seen before

The musicians featured include: Milt Buckner

Hugh MacDiarmid

labour history and the history of immigration to this country

Loius-René des Forêts

translated by George Szirtes