PROPHETSTOWN by Ciarán O'Rourke MacGillivray reader: perhaps most of all

reader: perhaps most of all

which is when he began writing poetry

Unafraid of silences

Justyna Matkowska

returning us with new consciousness to the fallen world

PROPHETSTOWN by Ciarán O'Rourke MacGillivray reader: perhaps most of allFinely crafted and ethically charged, Ciarn O'Rourke's third collection of poetry, Prophetstown, blends lyric power and searching sensitivity in its examination of the conflicts and contradictions of twenty first century civilization. O'Rourke casts an unflinching eye over the devastations of recent history, even as he celebrates the capacities and solaces of the poetic vocation itself. The result is a humane and radically engaged mode of eco poetic