When Michael O'Neill senses gangs / of shadow half-beckoning from twilit water, the moment is eerily alluring as well as scary. Fusions of feeling recur throughout a book that has something of the dash and darkness praised in his poem 'Louis MacNeice', along with a strong responsiveness to the physical and visual experience of living. Formally adventurous and alert to change and movement, combining memorable phrasing with a reaching towards the unsayable, Gangs of Shadow brims with imagery of past, present and future; its poems seek to bear witness, and above all sing.

Read a new poem and a 'deep note' on it by Michael O'Neill in Prac Crit

978-1906570-64-4 (pbk) £8.99
978-1906570-82-8 (hbk) £11.99
80pp
Published June 2014