Martin Malone
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"Paying acute sustained attention to something - anything - is becoming a radical act in our 24 hour non-stop culture. Malone and Angus avoid the tautological trap of poem and image together by both granting similar but different, and inventively accurate attention to the environs of Gardenstown. The whole thing is beautifully sustained. By the time I reached the conclusion with its 'musical comedy of eiders', I believed I'd walked the whole route."
Matthew Caley, poet & critic on Gardenstown
Critics' Picks
"Somewhat reminiscent of the early work of Geoffrey Hill, perhaps most particularly of Mercian Hymns, Malone’s work manages to convey the anguish of a deeply moral sensibility by playfully upending and reinventing traditional lyric tropes and by using the prose poem as a form which provides both a scaffold and a restraint for his uncompromising vision."
Siobhan Campbell on The Unreturning in Poetry Ireland Review
"I am particularly impressed by Malone’s poems on artists and works of art, notably ‘Mont Sainte Victoire’.This short poem says more than most books on Cézanne say in several chapters. I mentally place Malone in the category of poets who one wishes also wrote art criticism."
Glyn Pursglove on Cur in Acumen journal