All Things Depending

<p>At a time when move fast and break things has been a vogue exhortation Brendan Mulcahy's new collection <strong><em>All Things Depending</em></strong> proposes patience compassion irony and an appreciation of the interconnectedness of things. It favours honest doubt over a false chain-saw-wielding certainty. Here are poems of the tennis court and the political arena of family and travel with a backdrop of global literature. </p><p></p><p>The keynote sounded is contingency. The aligned swans on the cover photograph are there by happenstance. But there is abundant lightness of tone amongst the reflective moments. Section 2 opens with a cheeky citing of Keats' support in not taking things too seriously:</p><p></p><p>Keats wasn't much of an activist</p><p>life being short and sad;</p><p>but he always got the poems done</p><p>The Eve the Urn and that.</p>