Plenitude bt Thomas McCarthy classics unpacking their meaning and resonance

unpacking their meaning and resonance in the 21st Century

With humour and honesty

and then it allows the words themselves to glide up and out in all their hushed and controlled beauty' - Colm Tóibín

to surprise and astonish

anything is possible when our voices join together

Plenitude bt Thomas McCarthy classics unpacking their meaning and resonanceFollowing upon McCarthy's Pandemonium(2016) and Prophecy (2019), both from Carcanet, Plenitude marks a moment of completion and buoyant plenty in a very real and contemporary Irish world. Enriched at all times by a sense of history the precise histories of heritage gardens, of novelists such as Molly Keane and Waterford neighbours who had gone to the Great War his is a poetry of both brief formal lyric and longer historical meditation. A working