{"product_id":"things-that-happen-9781848617124","title":"Things That Happen","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor 25 years Maurice Scully's work was devoted to a single vast project under the overall title of \u003cem\u003eThings That Happen\u003c\/em\u003e, which consists of \u003cem\u003e5 Freedoms of Movement\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eLivelihood\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSonata\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eTig\u003c\/em\u003e, the coda to the whole work. This volume brings together the entire project under one set of covers for the first time, and thoroughly revised at the same time, and is published siumultanesouly with a volume of essays on the author's work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e' \u003cem\u003eThings That Happen\u003c\/em\u003e] is the most ambitious and important long poem in modern Irish literature.' -- Eric Falci\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"While poets like William Carlos Williams once announced that anything was available for the subject of the poem, Scully turns the paradigm on its head. The poem becomes less about subject matter, or what the poem is \"about\", and more an occasion or experience in itself .... It is a poetry that is playful, irreverent, skittish, rhapsodic and paratactic all at the same time.\" -- Paul Perry, \u003cem\u003eThe Stinging Fly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\" Scully's] innovations ... take a modernist inheritance, strip it of any residual mythos, and use it to examine the interaction of the writer's reflecting mind with the daily life of everybody ... and truly, if one seeks a poetry of the moment that records and wryly critiques the inequities of modern life, Maurice Scully's is it.\" -- Marthine Satris\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eScully, Maurice:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Maurice Scully was born in Dublin in 1952 and spent his childhood between Clare, the Ring Gaeltacht, and Dublin. He was educated at Trinity College Dublin. In a writing career that began in the early 1970s he has published over a dozen volumes of poetry and has read hois work widely in Ireland, the UK and the USA. After many years living abroad, he settled with his wife and children in Dublin, where he taught for a time at Dublin City University. He is a member of Aosdána.","brand":"Shearsman Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50929470636306,"sku":"9781848617124","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d2cd4b59-d14d-4f3d-a39a-24d177e6e60a.jpg?v=1739042911","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/things-that-happen-9781848617124","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}