The Bright Room by Michael McCarthy Em Strang spiked with humour

spiked with humour

It is a device

love as much as grief

‘A perfectly pitched quest for lost innocence’ John Burnside

This substantial volume is a tribute to the maturing voice of an essential poet

The Bright Room by Michael McCarthy Em Strang spiked with humourThe Bright Room brings together poems written over the last decade. This outstanding book confirms Michael McCarthy as an insightful storyteller: wise and grounded in the everyday the poems nevertheless celebrate the numinous moments in all our lives. As poet and as priest, Michael McCarthy in this book bears a sort of witness to the world, at that point where the ordinary touches upon the eternal. Bill Herbert