Lives of the Saints by Mícheál McCann The Very Selected along with a substantial selection

along with a substantial selection of new poems

Christi strikes the reader by her seraphic serenity

while tracking a path that goes

and expression

Fragmentation

Lives of the Saints by Mícheál McCann The Very Selected along with a substantial selectionAs in his rapturously received first collection, Devotion, in which Mchel McCann took a classic Irish elegy and applied it to contemporary Belfast so, in Lives of the Saints, he takes biographical details of religious figures and situates them in current states of experience and feeling. Centrepieces of this eclectic collection are an ode to a recycling centre and 'The Impossible Request' in which the author's grandmother forgets that he has told her