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Gathering EvidenceCaoilinn Hughes
Categories: 21st Century, First Collections, Irish, New Zealand, Women
Imprint: Carcanet Poetry Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Paperback (60 pages) (Pub. Feb 2014) 9781847772626 Out of Stock eBook (EPUB) Needs ADE! (Pub. Feb 2014) 9781847772817 £9.95 £8.96 To use the EPUB version, you will need to have Adobe Digital Editions (ADE) installed on your device. You can find out more at https://www.adobe.com/uk/solutions/ebook/digital-editions.html. Please do not purchase this version if you do not have and are not prepared to install, Adobe Digital Editions.
Atmospheric Physicist vs Poetic Atmosphericist You send sound signals into the atmosphere and listen for how they return, distorted. You measure turbulence – one of the last things we’re willing to say is unsolvable. Deciphering the data and gathering inference is how you stay alive. I send sound signals into the atmosphere and listen for how they return, distorted. I measure turbulence – one of the last things we’re willing to say is unsolvable. Gathering the data and deciphering inference is how I stay alive.
With pinpoint accuracy, virtuosity and humour, Caoilinn Hughes aligns scientific and poetic venturing. In this striking debut collection she focuses on moments of discovery, from the first controlled nuclear reaction to the shape of an avalanche as witnessed from its catchment area. These are epiphanies with consequences.
Avalanche
Gathering Evidence The Transit of Venus Pacific Rim The Moon Should Be Turned King of the Castle This Is What Makes It Go Bang Catechism Rational Dress On the Content of Brackets Looting Roses Vagabond Monologue Snake Creeps through the Grass The Shell Man Somatic Cells Impressions of Ireland To the Elements We Are Experiencing Delay Two Roundelets Every Body Continues In Its State Of Rest Lucky Marbles Communion Afternoon Cynophobia Playing House Dublin Can Be Heaven Hames of a Haiku Soldiers in the Battle for Hedonism Atmospheric Physicist vs Poetic Atmosphericist Estuary Bruisewort Bolivian Children A Peruvian Blockade, According to Bolivia Altitude God Always Geometrises Harmony of the Spheres Airbowing in Second Violins Watershed Is It A Kind Of Bell Toll? Legacy
Awards won by Caoilinn Hughes
Short-listed, 2014 New Zealand Post Book Awards
(Gathering Evidence) Short-listed, 2015 Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry Prize for First Full Collection (Gathering Evidence) Winner, 2015 Shine/Strong Award (Gathering Evidence)
'Carcanet Press and Belfast women poets are a very happy combination at the moment, and Caoilinn Hughes promises to be as individual a voice as Sinead Morissey. Add to that a caustic wit, as evidenced on Pacific Rim, or a gift for characterisation in Vagabond Monologue -- 'I'llll tell you what makes poetry flow? Nice big bank notes to be writing poems on'. And so say all of us.'
The Belfast Telegraph 'Hughes brings to the embers of the Irish lyric new breath, new music, new word hoards, reinvigorating that tradition. She spins news from her travels in the wide world and it feels like essential information. This collection is a flaring forth, an auspicious comet, signal of achievement and promise.' Paula Meehan 'The notion of the poet as alchemist is a familiar one, but Caoilinn Hughes gives it new and enormous energy. I find myself wondering how she knows so much about so many things; and then I notice how far her poems travel beyond their own footprints. On page after page, she offers transformation -- turning facts into feeling, experience into knowledge, prose into poetry, science into art.' Bill Manhire
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