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A serious and uncompromising poet, with a deeply philosophical sensibility, drawn to English at its barest and most abstract (comparable in this to Samuel Beckett), Geoff Squires’ uniqueness has led to his slipping the nets of readerly and critical awareness in both his native Ireland and his adoptive England. Yet bilingual editions of his poetry sell out in Parisian bookshops and his translations from the Persian have won a prestigious award in the United States.
This little book offers a bracing and rigorous introduction to his work by preserving an extended conversation, conducted by email over several years, with fellow-poet and literary editor Fergal Gaynor.
A serious and uncompromising poet, with a deeply philosophical sensibility, drawn to English at its barest and most abstract (comparable in this to Samuel Beckett), Geoff Squires’ uniqueness has led to his slipping the nets of readerly and critical awareness in both his native Ireland and his adoptive England. Yet bilingual editions of his poetry sell out in Parisian bookshops and his translations from the Persian have won a prestigious award in the United States.
This little book offers a bracing and rigorous introduction to his work by preserving an extended conversation, conducted by email over several years, with fellow-poet and literary editor Fergal Gaynor.