The Collection, ‘Going Home to Wyoming’ by John Ennis is a retrospective of the poet’s work published between 2000 and 2019, complementing an earlier selection. The book is thematically rather than chronologically organised, exploring concepts of home, displacement, and human rights violations through various poems that reference Irish folklore, classical literature, and contemporary events. It…
WHY WYOMING . . . ? Going Home to Wyoming, the Later Selected Poems 2000–2020 of John Ennis by Book Hub Publishing, complements his earlier Selected Poems (Dedalus, 1997). This “Later Selected” includes poems from publications of the author’s work since his Selected Poems (Dedalus, 1997). Thirteen publications are drawn upon, starting with Tráithníní (Dedalus, 2000) and finishing with Turangalîla-Palestine (Dairbhre, 2019).…
We’re currently working on a Selected Works for poet John Ennis scheduled for release later this summer. Here’s a poem from the volume chosen by our @drniallmc Goldcrest Falling by John Ennis “In our times, birds fall down hardly noticed in the world. The most diminutive of Irish birds, their wingbars gone palewith underparts of…