β Scribed by Hilary McPhee
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
In his oddly prophetic review of Vona Groarke's Shale in Poetry Ireland Review, Anthony Roche appreciated #x91;a strikingly individual sensibility rich enough to inhabit a hundred empty rooms'. Her second collection uses the image of the house #x97; and houses themselves #x97;as the setting for the enactment of particular lives. It includes poems about relationships (some playful, some soured) and others?xed on public, historical reference points. It concludes with more personal attentions. This book ranges from the witty, almost epigrammatic #x91;Open House', through some richly suppressed narratives such as #x91;Domestic Arrangements', to the more sombre registers of #x91;Holiday Home'. Other People's Houses enhances CaitrΓona Clutterbuck's impression in Oxford Poetry of #x91;a remarkably assured' and #x91;beautifully regulated' voice.;Front Cover; Note to Reader; Praise for Other People's Houses; Editor's Info Page; Title Page; Contents; Dedication; Epigraph; Indoors; House Rules; House Contents; House Viewing; House Plan; Open House; Folderol; Two Storey; House-bound; The House of Hair; House Guest; The Dream House; House Wine; Domestic Arrangements; The Lighthouse; Lighthouses; House Fire; Workhouses; The Big House; Around the Houses; The Courthouse; The Sandcastle; Holiday Home; Nearer Home; The Slaughterhouse; House Style; The Play House; The Glasshouse; The Image of the House; The Empty House; Other People's Houses.
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