Le Simon ó Faoláín.
Coiscéim 2022
ISBN 6660012220106
LTH 85
Seo an t-aon saol a bhí, atá, is a bheidh againn. Canathaobh, más ea, go mbímid go minic ar iasacht ó na rudaí gur chuid díobh sinn le ceart: ónár bhfód dúchais, ár muintir, ár dteanga, an dúlra, agus fiú uainn féin?
Naomh díbrithe óna thír dhúchais – teifigh ar tóir saol níos fearr in Éirinn – teaghlaigh Ghaeltachta ar bhánta méithe na Mí – scaltán éin mhara ar strae ar an mbaile mór – an duine daonna ag déanamh cleamhnais leis an teicneolaíocht mar dhíon ar uaigneas an aonaráin: sa chnuasach seo, an chéad cheann ón bhFaolánach le fada an lá, ritheann staid seo an choimhthís, na deoraíochta, agus an bheith ar iasacht ina snáthe trí na dánta, bíodh sé le braith go soiléir nó ar chuma níos íogaire.
This is the only life that was, is, and will be. Can we, however, often borrow from the things of which we are rightly part: from our homeland, our people, our language, nature, and even ourselves?
Saints deported from their homeland – refugees in search of a better life in Ireland – Gaeltacht families in the fertile meadows of Meath – straying seabirds in the city – the human being affiliated with technology as a roof for the loneliness of loneliness: in this collection, the first from the long – running Faolánach, runs this state of alienation, exile, and borrowing in a thread through the poems, whether clearly or more sensibly.
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