Echoes and Shadows

Micheal Fanning, John Minihan

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Miscellaneous
01 January 2009

Photography & photographs; Poetry; Poetry by individual poets; Bargains

Michael Fanning is a superb poet. A poet has an obligation to bear witness to the human, the vulnerable and the sacred, and Fanning does just this. The book commences with an evocation of Stone, Bronze & Iron ages, and from then on to the poet travels through the many Kerry villages and towns of his childhood. He has certainly found his voice and transcends suffering through Art. But his statement is much more than that. It is a discovery of an ancient global art of poetry - the maker, the poet, calls on the Word to create a magical and mist-filled world of laughter, humanity and mirth. This is an unusual, unique experience of a mystic exploring the mysterious world of an ancient and modern Kerry tribal people in the southwest of Ireland.

By: Micheal Fanning
Photographs by: John Minihan
Imprint: Miscellaneous
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 182mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9780709086987
ISBN 10: 0709086989
Pages: 96
Publication Date: 01 January 2009
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Micheal Fanning lives in Co. Kerry where he practices as a family doctor. He has had a dozen poetry books published. Micheal Fanning is founding-director of an arts and politics festival - Feile na Bealtaine - held in Dingle, Co. Kerry every year. John Minihan is a world-renowned photographer. He illustrates the poems with non-digital black and white photographs appropriately chosen to synchronize with reference to the poem itself.

Reviews for Echoes and Shadows

* 'Fanning is immensely rewarding - A stunning poet.' Lines Review * 'A collection of masterful and splendid poems evoking a sense of transcendence.' Irish Times Review