It Says Here (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | Sean O'Brien | knygos.lt

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The new collection from Sean O'Brien is a book of halves. The first half, IT SAYS HERE, is a series of poems on memory, time, and recurrence; shorter, viciously focused pieces on the current political nightmare (there are some utterly scabrous political sketches); other pieces lay bare the current trials of mind like Sean's - expert, wise and literate - trying to navigate a world gone post-content and post-intellectual. As usual, all this is done through Sean's trademark lyricism, his subversion of folk-tale and folksong, and allegory.

All this forms a lovely acoustic anteroom to the long poem HAMMERSMITH - a psychogeographic journey through the haunted landscapes of London, very shadowy and cinematic; it's a gripping - and at times semi-novelistic- navigation of the labyrinth of memory, with the contemporary political/climate apocalypses looming over it to make it even creepier. All in all, it has the feel and grandeur of a contemporary version of a Blake prophetic poem.