[New-Poetry] Hip Flask: Short Poems from Ireland

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July 2003
James Purdon
poetry
The Hip Flask: Short Poems from Ireland edited by Frank Ormsby


Beware, then: anthologies can be a mixed bag, and must be done well, if done at all. Fortunately, editor Frank Ormsby has managed to do very well indeed, in selecting over a hundred poems for The hip flask: short poems from Ireland. The book finds its strength in its limitations. Ormsby has carefully selected only those poems which will fit easily and aesthetically into each one of the book's small pages and, indeed, into one's memory after only a couple of readings. 


The versatility of this short poetry is the perfect justification for Ormsby's decision. Here is to be found love poetry, sex poetry, poetry in memorial and poetry in anticipation. Poetry in translation from the Gaelic is represented beside a poetry of "San Giovanni," "Padre Pio" and "The Mass": the language of Italian Catholicism fused in Ireland with the very different political and religious connotations of English. 


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