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Goldfish Logic

by Dermot McGarthy

98 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); poetry, contains black and white images; catalogue #06-2319; ISBN 1-4251-0561-0; US$17.04, C$19.60, EUR14.00, £9.80

A collection of snap shots of life with lyrics added. The brutal, the comic, the tragic and the downright bizarre mingle freely together in poetry's confluence. These poems can be listened to at any volume, that is of the reader's choosing.

Herein lies a collection of the greatest poems ever composed? No, not quite, though in truth this could be the case. Rather Goldfish Logic is one man's version of events as he has experienced them. Everything written here is true, that is to say, that it happened, is happening, or will happen in the future. The material is neither distilled, derived, nor fabricated. On the contrary, it is first hand reportage from the front line of living. It is living itself, that is art and poetry is a vital documentary about that artistry. Feelings never die, they are merely suppressed and produce other feelings in their wake. You will find all of these in this collection.

Dermot McGarthy was born in Dublin in December 1963. He has been involved in teaching for nearly twenty years and has been a Lecturer in the Dublin Institute of Technology since 1996. This is Dermot's second collection of Poetry. His previous collection, Standing Room Only, was published in 2004.

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