The Vulture by Gerard Woodward #Irishpoetry this collection asks questions about

this collection asks questions about poetry

uncompromising and starkly-realised sequence of poems in the form of a journal

this book details the realities of disabled lives

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The Vulture by Gerard Woodward #Irishpoetry this collection asks questions aboutThe vulture, the presiding genius of Gerard Woodwards collection, is at once sympathetic and awful, intimate and other. Woodward naturally positions himself at uncomfortable borders and thresholds, and in doing so alerts us to the flimsiness of the conceits of home, of family and human culture. Many poets have challenged our lazy habit of addressing nature though the pathetic fallacy; few have had the nerve to consciously embrace it as a subversive