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Ghost Homeland by Colin Carberry
Colin Carberry was born in Toronto and spent his childhood in Lanesboro, Co. Longford, Ireland. He now lives in Mexico with his wife and two daughters. He is the author of the poetry collections The Crossing (1998), The Green Table (2003) and Ceasefire in Purgatory (2007), and is the translator of Love Poems by Jaime Sabines (Biblioasis, 2011), along with an earlier volume of Sabines’s verse. His poems have appeared in anthologies, journals and newspapers in North America, Europe, and Asia, and have been translated into many languages. He was Writer in Residence at the Heinrich Böll Cottage on Achill Island in July 2015, and has been awarded Writers’ Bursaries by the Ontario Arts Council. Colin has read from his work on radio and television, and at book fairs, embassies, festivals, prisons, and universities in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Canada, Ireland, Mexico, Serbia, Slovenia, and the United States.
Compulsively quotable stuff…This is a poet in a lively high esprit.
- Arc Poetry Magazine (Canada)
These poems are profound and moving, the real thing, poetry such as we seldom find, both lucid and mysterious.
- Kildare Dobbs, poet, memoirist, travel essayist.
That master poet, Colin Carberry, is a treasure that Ireland and Canada can fight over. An expert in his craft, he leads the reader into histories that both nations have shared and both denied. Unflinching in his vision, his accent that of a countryman and also of a stranger, he becomes the displaced man just where his sonnets turn.
- Richard Greene, Canadian poet and biographer.
All elegant and well-wrought.
- Bernard MacLaverty, Irish novelist, and short story writer
Your nerves will quicken at his truly unusual, and unusually good, verse. He belongs strongly to Irish influence, and you'll find in him a root that goes deep into the best of Heaney, Longley, Muldoon, and the other great recent names. Also Kavanagh. But there's no sense of imitation at all, and one of the reasons for this is his other palpable influence: Derek Walcott. Again, there's no sense of imitation, but there is a definite sense of his being a very worthy inheritor and successor.
- A. F. Moritz, US/Canadian poet, Griffin Poetry Prize winner.
Ghost Homeland
ISBN 9781-916075313, price €12.00
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