David Nash: No Man’s Land
- Free
- Bantry Bookshop
- 19/07/2024 - 11:30 am
No Man’s Land is the highly assured debut collection of poems by Chile-based, Cork poet David Nash, an exploration and a reclamation of a place at once familiar and strange – the West Cork rural landscape of the poet’s formative years. It was shortlisted for the 2024 RSL Ondaatje Prize which celebrates outstanding works of fiction, non-fiction or poetry that best evoke the spirit of a place.
David will be introduced by Patrick Holloway
Returning to West Cork for the first time in more than a decade, David re-immerses himself in a world of memory and language, folklore and custom, revealing a strikingly intimate connection with flora and fauna, land- and seascape. Yet all the while his presence feels questioned, undeserved, his calling as both participant and observer under assault from the passage of time and the overwhelming threat of the present ecological moment.
Inventive and playful, surprising and life-affirming, at its heart No Man’s Land is nevertheless a book about loss – the loss of language, knowledge, nature and wilderness that affects all of us in these challenging and troubling times.
‘An auspicious and powerful debut – exuberant, original, comforting.’ Paula Meehan
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