Swimming With Horses by Nicholas Hogg #Irishpoetry many of these poems respond

many of these poems respond to a landscape as beautiful as it is disquieting

What followed has been even more destructive and disorientating: wars

as companion

and sun that language flails in trying to recreate

Swimming With Horses by Nicholas Hogg #Irishpoetry many of these poems respondSwimming with Horses by Nicholas Hogg gathers poems of travel, witness, and working class memory across a wide geographical and historical reach, moving from a Pembroke College room once occupied by Ted Hughes to the radioactive deep time of a nuclear waste repository. Hogg's poetry is preoccupied with reading and writing as acts of preservation against war, extinction, and erasure, returning often to its literary inheritances in Burnside, Drake,