Shoulder Tap by Riordan, Maurice

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Author: Riordan, MauricePoetry by individual poetsPublished on 5 October 2023 by FABER & FABER in the United Kingdom.Paperback | 72 pages197 x 130 x 4 | 100g
SHORTLISTED FOR THE POETRY PIGOTT PRIZE IN ASSOCIATION WITH LISTOWEL WRITERS WEEKThroughout these poems, with their roaming sense of first-person, the speakers minds are cavernous and echoic, primal and sophisticated, observant and raw, in and out of control of themselves. The effect is unpredictable and thrilling, at once a dark art and an illumination of unease and loss and wishfulness. The collection features disquieting songs of a mutable self alongside poignant elegies, interior journeys and subtle (and not so subtle) ripostes to the legacy of Trumpism while elsewhere encounters with ghostly feet and tongues of fire consort with riffs on Baudelaire, Rilke and Laforgue. These poems twinkle with mischief and humour, making for a pungent and haunting read. Riordan a poet whose strong, rippling influence is felt by all in his wake affirms his reputation at the forefront of contemporary poetry.