Due to having a generous mention in
the acknowledgements section of Richie McCaffery’s third full collection, Summer
/ Break (Shoestring Press, 2022) and having kept up a long-distance,
email-based friendship with him over several years, I don’t feel I can review his
new book with any degree of independence or objectivity.
However, suffice to say, Summer /
Break is an excellent example of the poetry I enjoy reading. Apparent
simplicity, delicious poetic leaps and achingly resonant object-led poems have
long been McCaffery’s trademarks, but his recent personal upheaval seems only
to have driven him further and deeper in a quest to find the means of
expressing and transforming extreme emotions. Completely and utterly
recommended!
I’ve always found the summer to be the only season in which I struggle to
write poetry. Of course, an extraordinary heatwave like the current
all-but-unbea...
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