Following his acclaimed "Pandemonium", Thomas McCarthy's "Prophecy" dwells on childhood memory, romantic love and the varieties of human attachment. Still embodying his distinctive voice and craft, in these poems McCarthy risks more prophetic moods a...

During the dark, disturbed years after Ireland s economic collapse and humiliation in 2008, poet Thomas McCarthy retreated back into an intensely personal world where what was political took on an almost macabre, geological character. He returned as...