Blind Stitch

Delanty Greg

The poems in "The Blind Stitch" interweave family, marriage, love and friendship into a larger world of public life. Set in Delanty's native Cork, and in America and India, the book is sewn together with two main conceits. One is that of the leper, which concerns personal and public suffering and complicity; the other is that of needlework, threads that run through our public and private lives, seen and unseen, stitching us all together.

About the Author

Greg Delanty was born in Ireland and has lived in Vermont for over ten years, where he teaches at St. Michael's College. In 1996 he won the Austin Clarke Centenary Poetry Award. "The Hellbox" is his fourth collection of poetry.

Reviews

"The Blind Stitch is a tour de force" – Irish Examiner

"Delanty writes poems that are wordily appealing in the way that Hopkins and late Auden appeal" – Times Literary Supplement

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