The Vulture by Gerard Woodward #Irishpoetry to delve deeper - whether

to delve deeper - whether you're on your own or with friends

this collection asks questions about poetry

to the water

with preservation and redemption

They try to puzzle each other out

The Vulture by Gerard Woodward #Irishpoetry to delve deeper - whetherThe vulture, the presiding genius of Gerard Woodwards collection, is at once sympathetic and awful, intimate and other. Woodward naturally positions himself at uncomfortable borders and thresholds, and in doing so alerts us to the flimsiness of the conceits of home, of family and human culture. Many poets have challenged our lazy habit of addressing nature though the pathetic fallacy; few have had the nerve to consciously embrace it as a subversive