Author(s): Kevin Ireland

Poetry

Here in his 22nd collection of poems, Kevin Ireland is as deft and wise as ever: The perfect loving phrase the one that tongues a dazzling parting thought and leaves a vapour trail across the heart does not force its truths from gravities (or likelihoods from similarities) but weaves an arc of steamy sparkly hold-on-tights-for-godsakes and from nothing more than golden-mackled loops