The New Salon: Poets in Conversation
An acclaimed Irish poet, Eamon Grennan has published many books including Still Life with Waterfall, The Quick of It, and most recently Matter of Fact.
In conversation with Alice Quinn
Co-sponsored by the Poetry Society of America
In conversation with Alice Quinn
Co-sponsored by the Poetry Society of America
Date: ,
Location:
Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House, 58 West 10th Street, between 5th and 6th Avenues
 | Eamon Grennan was born in Dublin in 1941 and educated at UCD, where he studied English and Italian, and Harvard, where he received his PhD in English. His volumes of poetry include Matter of Fact (2008), What Light There Is & Other Poems, (North Point Press, 1989); Wildly for Days (1983); What Light There Is (1987); As If It Matters (1991); So It Goes (1995); Selected and New Poems (2000); Still Life with Waterfall (2001) and The Quick of It (2005). |
| COLD MORNING
Copyright by Eamon Grennan Through an accidental crack in the curtain I can see the eight o'clock light change from charcoal to a faint gassy blue, inventing things in the morning that has a thick skin of ice on it as the water tank has, so nothing flows, all is bone, telling its tale of how hard the night had to be for any heart caught out in it, just flesh and blood no match for the mindless chill that's settled in, a great stone bird, its wings stretched stiff from the tip of Letter Hill to the cobbled bay, its gaze glacial, its hook-and-scrabble claws fast clamped on every window, its petrifying breath a cage in which all the warmth we were is shivering. |
