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MATHEMATICS
& OTHER POEMS

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back cover copy: This collection has won two major awards - the Patrick Kavanagh award (1995) and the American Ireland Fund/Listowel Writers’ Week Poetry Prize (1996). The title poem ‘Mathematics’ is a witty sonnet sequence which explores love and loss through the language and imagery of mathematics. It sets the question ‘Where is your Euclid now my love’, and in a book that ranges from the devastating elegy ‘The Wake in the House’ to the tenderness of ‘Sick Child’ this question provokes complex and subtle answers. In the end though, it is the emotional intensity of the writing that remains in the mind.

format :: PDF (273k) :: Open Office 2 (105k) :: MS Word (193k)
genre :: Poetry
publisher :: The Collins Press
place & year :: Cork, 1997
ISBN :: 1 898256 26 8
translations :: none
translation queries :: contact author
print-on-demand :: no
status :: out of print

Contact:: librarian@irishliteraryrevival.com

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This Is The Country

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William Wall

Biographical Note

William Wall was born in Cork in 1955 but grew up in the coastal village of Whitegate. He was educated at University College Cork.
He has written four novels, two collections of poetry, of which Mathematics & Other Poems was the first, and a collection of short stories.
His novel This Is The Country was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2005 and shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards. Among other prizes, he has won the Patrick Kavanagh Award for Poetry and the Sean O’Faolain Award for the short story. He is a full time writer and lives in Cork City.

updated: April 27 2006 .
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