{"title":"Micheal Fanning","description":"Mícheál Fanning practises as a medical doctor in County Kerry. As well as his books from Salmon, he has published three chapbooks and two translations. His books in the Irish language are published by Coiscéim under his Irish name - Mícheál Ó Fionnáin. For the past number of years he has directed Féile na Bealtaine, an arts and politics festival, held annually in West Kerry.","products":[{"product_id":"homage","title":"Homage","description":"Mícheál Fanning's \u003ci\u003eHomage\u003c\/i\u003e salutes family, friends, and special places of Ireland (Inishfallen, The Skelligs, Nollaig i gCnoc Mellary and Gallaras), but his tributes are not merely local. They extend to the Middle and Far East, and include biblical, mythical and historical figures such as Abraham, King David, Solomon, Achilles, Odysseus, Paris, Charles Darwin, Virginia Woolf and Daniel O'Connell. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFanning's love of philosophy is manifest in his homage to Plato, Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, Spinoza and Hegel. As Fanning sees it: The Word is evocative and piercing against the backdrop of uncertainty.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHomage\u003c\/i\u003e is the final part of the trilogy \u003ci\u003eBeyond Our Fears\u003c\/i\u003e: Part I - 'Verbum et Verbum' (Salmon 1997); Part II - 'The Separation of Grey Clouds' (Salmon 2002).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePraise for 'Verbum et Verbum':\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"'Verbum et Verbum' is a masterful poem, its human concerns, stylistic dexterity, learned vocabulary and confluence with visual sources anticipated by poems in the six preceding sections call up not just an historical milieu but an entire cosmology and its concomitant world view.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePoetry Ireland Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePraise for 'The Separation of Grey Clouds':\u003cbr\u003e\"A fascinating journey through history and mythology. Readers will return with deepening interest again and again.\"\u003cbr\u003eBrendan Kennelly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMícheál Fanning\u003c\/b\u003e practises as a medical doctor in County Kerry. As well as his books from Salmon, he has published three chapbooks and two translations. His books in the Irish language are published by Coiscéim under his Irish name - Mícheál Ó Fionnáin. For the past number of years he has directed Féile na Bealtaine, an arts and politics festival, held annually in West Kerry.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Salmon Poetry","offers":[{"title":"Book","offer_id":1041058852,"sku":"9781903392492","price":12.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/2_2_336eba6e-0825-4cd3-add8-f3786cc79900.jpeg?v=1752238026"},{"product_id":"verbum-et-verbum","title":"Verbum et Verbum","description":"\u003ci\u003eVerbum et Verbum\u003c\/i\u003e is the first part of the trilogy \u003ci\u003eBeyond Our Fears\u003c\/i\u003e: \u003ci\u003ePart II - The Separation of Grey Clouds\u003c\/i\u003e (Salmon 2002), \u003ci\u003ePart III - Homage\u003c\/i\u003e (Salmon 2006)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnne Lucey of \u003ci\u003eThe Irish Examiner\u003c\/i\u003e has described the \u003ci\u003eVerbum et Verbum\u003c\/i\u003e sequence as being '... amongst Micheal's best poetry yet... the constraints of the intricate verse form suits him'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In the best of these poems Micheal Fanning relives a South Kerry childhood dominated by the sea, \"the great comforter\". Images are simple and memorable: 'the horse gallops\/into the lungs of the wind'. He moves from the subtle colours of this bird-filled landscape to intense scenes of hardship: a homeless Ethiopian laments the family he has lost to famine and typhus; we listen to the grief of a body riven with cancer. Fanning depicts early monk scribes who painted otters and griffins to illuminate their manuscripts, much as he seeks images to make sense of a world torn by violence, hurt and unspoken feelings. Grappling with issues of suffering and faith, he constructs his own stone wall of understanding, cementing it with a host of Classical and early Christian allusions: 'The Maker arranges nouns, verbs, adjectives... And places stones to structure\/the storm strafed wall'.\"\u003cbr\u003eKatie Donovan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A 20th century Irish St. John of the Cross, Fanning picks up the mystical Irish where AE had left it some sixty years ago and gives vent to agape with a boldness of execution beyond George Russell's wildest dreams. \u003ci\u003eVerbum et Verbum\u003c\/i\u003e, the title poem, is heartfelt, intense, courageous and a determined leap forward in what was once the thoroughfare of Irish poetry. It simply cannot be discarded.\"\u003cbr\u003ePeter Van de Kamp\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Salmon Poetry","offers":[{"title":"Book","offer_id":1041063504,"sku":"9781897648896","price":7.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/2_2_d36c1015-27b4-455a-8d9e-cde02e70a5fd.jpeg?v=1752236828"},{"product_id":"salmon-a-journey-in-poetry-1981-2007","title":"Salmon: A Journey in Poetry, 1981-2007","description":"\u003ci\u003eSalmon: A Journey in Poetry 1981-2007\u003c\/i\u003e celebrates 26 years of innovative and exciting Irish and international poetry. The organization of the volume is simple: two poems from the poet's Salmon collection (or collections) and one uncollected poem. Detailed biographical notes for each poet, and a complete bilbiography of Salmon's publications, are also included.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Salmon Poetry","offers":[{"title":"Book","offer_id":1041064216,"sku":"9781903392577","price":22.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0441\/7369\/products\/2_2_7c68ce9a-3129-473d-ac45-beb49770028a.jpeg?v=1752238219"}],"url":"https:\/\/inpressbooks.co.uk\/collections\/micheal-fanning\/james-simmons.oembed","provider":"Inpress Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}