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Over the Boundaries
by Marie Barrett
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 17th May 2010
ISBN: 978-1-907179-76-1
Price: €Paperback
Over the Boundaries is Marie Barrett’s first book of poems since the publication of ‘The Witnesses’ in 2000. Elegies, celebrations of love and redemption, and reminiscences are interspersed with inspired dream and prophetic utterance. The endless quest to find some fleeting image of our true selves is a re-occurring theme of the book. We cross the great divide between silence and words to find that part of ourselves that exists always in new beginnings. The poems attest to a harvest gleaned in the field of the Spirit.
‘These poems have real moments of beauty in them.’
Brendan Kennelly
‘The factual is the best ladder to the spiritual.’
John Montague
From the Garden
They took the quarry from the stone
And the water from the mill;
They placed a no-go sign outside your door,
The place of your still moving will.
They took the meadow from the long grass,
The valley and the hill;
The white-curved moon they thieved from the sky
And a trillion stars harnessed for war.
O war of wars! What giant step
Slowly and stealthily taken
From small turning back
Of one man, woman, in the garden.
Cover image by kind permission of the artist, Ailbhe Barrett
