Apathy Is Out : Selected Poems by Sean O'Riordain

Apathy Is Out : Selected Poems by Sean O'RiordainSean O Riordain (1916 77) was the most important and most influential Irish language poet of modern times. He revitalised poetry in Irish, combining the world of Irish literature with that of modern English and European literature, thus adding to the Irish tradition from the other side. His poems 'seek to answer fundamental questions about the nature of human existence and the place of the individual in a universe without meaning' (Gearoid Denvir).

Rachel Cusk's marriage of ten years came to an end

It's a close but complicated childhood friendship that ends abruptly in their early twenties

opportunities are scarce

'A moving fable

barely tolerated siblings

period' Ann Patchett An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits

dark nights

a knot of loss

their expensive candles and their Friday-night sex parties

and is a key text for anyone studying design or visual culture

He spots his shadow and wants to race it - only to find it's just as fast as him

desire and transformation