What the Wolf Heard

<p>In the opening Lighthouses section the west coast of Ireland is recast as a kind of Burroughsian Land of the Dead with the ghost-lights from defunct lighthouses mixing with those of the automated in a sequence that slowly allows itself to be decoded.</p><p>Ned Kelly given his own requiem is found morphing in and out of a lupine-self following the destruction of the last wolf in Ireland and a period which saw the mass-banishment of many of the country’s underclasses to the new British antipodean colonies.</p><p>Other poems are suggestive of a bestiary presenting various animals that have been damaged and reformed by their current environment.</p><p>A number of contemporary Irish artists are used as a sounding board the poems following them Alice-like down their various rabbit-holes. Thrown into all of this mix are cameos from Harpo Marx and Mr. Punch as well as opera-singing Alsatians.</p>