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Carrying the Songs
Author(s): Moya Cannon (Author)
- Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
- Publication Date: 27 Sept. 2007
- Edition: First Edition
- Language: English
- Print length: 112 pages
- ISBN-10: 1857549228
- ISBN-13: 9781857549225
Book Description
“Carrying the Songs” explores what is lost to time and change, and what endures and is transformed: languages and landscapes, artefacts and songs, carried through a lifetime, across oceans, across centuries. A long-forgotten Gaelic word surfaces from childhood and is reanimated by use; a tiny Stone Age carving speaks across millennia of a shared human impulse to create. At the heart of this collection is migration, the rhythm that draws together the natural and the human worlds. Luminous and precise, Moya Cannon’s poetry resonates like remembered songs. Included with the new poems in “Carrying the Songs” is a generous selection of the poems from Moya Cannon’s much-praised earlier collections, “Oar and The Parchment Boat”.
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About the Author
Moya Cannon is an Irish poet. Her seventh collection Bunting’s Honey was published in 2025, and in 2021 Carcanet published her Collected Poems. She was born and grew up in Co. Donegal, received a BA in History and Politics from University College, Dublin, and an MPhil in International Relations from Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. A recipient of the inaugural Brendan Behan Award and of the O’Shaughnessy Award, she was Heimbold Professor of Irish Studies at Villanova University and in 2004 was elected to Áosdána, the affiliation of Irish creative artists.
