The Suntrap in the title poem of Catherine Phil MacCarthy's long-awaited third collection is a magnifying glass through which a young girl is shown for the first time 'how to burn'. The Lens highlights MacCarthy's preoccupation with the act of seeing, and the tension between the quest for illumination and the act of discovery.

Suntrap Reviews

'MacCarthy is adept at using imagery to bring into conjunction different times and places, different perspectives and modes of consciousness, so the poems move apparently easily through history, myth, personal memory, the ordinary day.' AILEEN KELLY 'Suntrap reveals an imagination aware of the strength and delicacy of the body as well as of how the mind and body are in endless responsive dialogue with each other... With observation always tuned to emotional frequencies, it's the lyric fluency with which these zones everywhere mingle that lends distinction to Catherine Phil MacCarthy's latest collection.' EAMON GRENNAN

About Catherine Phil MacCarthy

Catherine Phil MacCarthy was born in Limerick in 1954. She was educated at University College Cork, Trinity College Dublin and the Central School of Speech and Drama, London. She was writer in residence for the City of Dublin in 1994, and for University College Dublin in 2002. She won the National Women's Poetry Competition in 1990, was a prizewinner in the 1992 Patrick Kavanagh Awards, and was shortlisted for the Austin Clarke Prize in 1996. She has published two collections of poetry: This Hour of the Tide (1994) and The Blue Globe (Blackstaff, 1998). She is also the author of one novel, One Room an Everywhere (Blackstaff, 2003).

Additional information

Sku

GOR013611666

ISBN 13

9780856408014

ISBN 10

0856408018

Title

Suntrap by Catherine Phil MacCarthy

Author

Catherine Phil MacCarthy

Condition

Used - Like New

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Colourpoint Creative Ltd

Year published

2007-03-01

Number of pages

Prizes

N/A

Cover note

Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.

Note

The book has been read, but looks new. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket is included if applicable. No missing or damaged pages, no tears, possible very minimal creasing, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins