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Free Spirits by Michael O’ Hanlon
ISBN 095507200 X
Free Spirits is a highly enjoyable read, full of lyrical, muscular poems. O’Hanlon’s breadth sweeps wide, incorporating Irish Snow-Women, The Atom Bomb, Rome, and Spin The Bottle among others. However, he is at his perceptive best when he invites us to observe small yet intimate moments, in poems such as ‘Lads’, ‘Reversal’, and ‘Maiden Flight 1932’: ‘her propellers ploughed/up through a smoked glass ceiling of cloud,/up up away, into distant blue history.' Free Spirits is evocative and intelligent, lingering long after you close its pages.
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Free Spirits is a highly enjoyable read, full of lyrical, muscular poems. O’Hanlon’s breadth sweeps wide, incorporating Irish Snow-Women, The Atom Bomb, Rome, and Spin The Bottle among others. However, he is at his perceptive best when he invites us to observe small yet intimate moments, in poems such as ‘Lads’, ‘Reversal’, and ‘Maiden Flight 1932’: ‘her propellers ploughed/up through a smoked glass ceiling of cloud,/up up away, into distant blue history.' Free Spirits is evocative and intelligent, lingering long after you close its pages.
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