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    Cold Coffee At Emo Court
    Cold Coffee At Emo Court
    Cold Coffee At Emo Court
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    Cold Coffee At Emo Court

    By Arthur Broomfield

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    Arthur Broomfield’s sense of history excavates the fustier corners of things wemight almost forget, but which he refuses to ignore. These observant poems sparkle with a unique response to experience as he writes of love and marriage, the ‘poetry’ of a sporting fixture to the ears of a young boy, or the menace of the IRA at odds with the joy of the 1990 FIFA World Cup.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLimerick Writers Centre
    Release dateApr 13, 2018
    ISBN9780993410154
    Cold Coffee At Emo Court
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    Arthur Broomfield

    Dr Arthur Broomfield is a poet, novelist, publisher and Beckett scholar from County Laois. His previous works include When the Dust Settles (International University Press) The Poetry Reading at Semple Stadium (Lapwing), The Empty Too: language and philosophy in the works of Samuel Beckett (Cambridge Scholars’ Publishing) and Mice at the Threshing (Lapwing). He is editor of the online poetry journal Outburst, and delivers occasional lectures on the works of Samuel Beckett. A Room of One’s Own is his first full collection.

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      Cold Coffee At Emo Court - Arthur Broomfield

      Cold Coffee at Emo Court

      Arthur Broomfield

      Revival Press

      Limerick, Ireland

      Revival Press is the poetry imprint of

      The Limerick Writers’ Centre

      12 Barrington Street, Limerick, Ireland

      www.limerickwriterscentre.com

      www.facebook.com/limerickwriterscentre

      All rights reserved

      No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form

      or by any means, electronic or mechanical without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages in a review.

      Book and Cover Design: Lotte bender

      Managing Editor Revival Press: Dominic Taylor

      Cover Image: Photograph by Arna Rúnarsdóttir, of Gunnuhver by Patricia Bennett.

      Reproduced by kind permission of the artist.

      ISBN 978-0-9934101-5-4

      A CIP catalogue number for this publication is available from The British Library

      We acknowledge the support of The Limerick Writers’ Centre

      For those who read poetry

      ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

      Acknowledgements are due to the editors of the following publications where some of these poems have been published Acumen, Agenda, Crannog, Envoi, Honest Ulsterman, Icarus, Kim Moore’s blog, Leinster Express, New Irish Writings Sunday Tribune, Ofi, Orbis, Outburst, Poetry Bus, Poetry Ireland Review, Salmon, Stony Thursday, The Galway Review, Tipperary Star, Writing North East, And Agamemnon Dead anthology, The Sea anthology, Envoi Summer Anthology 1990, From Here to the Horizon, Laois anthology 1999, Dundalk Patrick Kavanagh anthology.

      Very many thanks go to Mary O’Donnell and Jean O’Brien for their critical readings of these poems, without you this book would not have been possible.

      ‘What is natural to mankind is not spoken language but the faculty of constructing a language.’

      Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

      Portlaoise at 46

      Coffee in Jim’s Country Kitchen

      or The Regency with friends.

      An exchange rate is striking here

      each transaction

      a hieroglyphic

      etched on a milestone

      paving my journey home.

      This place knows my value

      my roots

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