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Winner of the Guyana Prize
the Kate Tufts Award from Claremont College and a 2015 Guggenheim award
venturesome and powerful
and confirms what his admirers have long known
A Herring Famine by Adam O'Riordan Bloodaxe Books Winner of the Guyana PrizeThe poems of this dazzling second collection are of contradictory impulses: of abundance and famine, of absence and presence, of endings and new beginnings. Here again are the intelligent, elegant, emotionally potent poems that are ORiordans trademark, yet with this collection he also takes us to starker, grittier places that push into bolder territories, from the Herring Famine of 1944 to the Strangeways Prison Riot of 1990. Bounding place and time,
