[spectre] The Willow's Whisper

[Séamas Cain]

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THE WILLOW'S WHISPER :
A Transatlantic Compilation of
Poetry from Ireland & Native America

"This thought provoking and imaginative anthology brings poems and
poets from diverse sociolinguistic and cultural traditions together
into dialogue.  Central yet marginalized within their respective
discourses, the genus of this anthology is to change the dominant
focus.  By pairing these ‘non-canonical’ texts, this anthology opens
new vistas, and makes new connections amplifying human and cultural
concerns all too often lost in the official Anglo-American literary
and cultural canon."

** Dr Brian Ó Conchubhair, of the
University of Notre Dame, Indiana.

THE WILLOW'S WHISPER
(Cambridge Scholars Publishing)
edited by Jill O’Mahony &
Mícheál Ó hAodha, will be
launched on Friday 13 May 2011
at 7:00 p.m. in
The Book Centre,
25 Barronstrand Street,
Waterford, Ireland.

THE WILLOW'S WHISPER brings the voices of 35 poets from the Irish and
Native American communities together in one compilation.  This
collection of poems provides an aesthetic commentary on the potential
which is beyond and within the everyday.  From Gabriel Rosenstock and
Biddy Jenkinson to N. Scott Momaday and Karenne Wood, and from Joy
Harjo to Paddy Bushe and Biddy Jenkinson, this compilation showcases
poetry from the finest poets in both communities.

Native America and Ireland : you might ask ...

What are the commonalities?

Furthermore : why bring them together through poetry?

THE WILLOW'S WHISPER

THE WILLOW'S WHISPER

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