Poems 2000-2005 is a transitional collection written while the author - also known to be W. J. Me Cormack, literary historian - was in the process of moving back from London to settle in rural Ireland. It is also a vigorous contribution to the age-old dialogue between Sacred and Profane themes, questioning beliefs and pleasures, guilts and landscapes, poetic methods and prosaic realities.

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Included are some of the most disturbing and accomplished meditations on communal violence in Ulster, the province where Hugh Maxton now lives. He is currently completing a new volume of poems and working at age of 57 on a first novel.

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Contents -- Adam in Paradise: Quartet Renunciation -- Dedication Later Deadlock 960 -- PLANTED 5----Mersea Island--Questions for John Prine--Winter Solstice--Broken Long Measure--To the Memory of Lily Webster--Dry Lightning--Pellet--Moregrove--Dead Habitat--Uncle Peter s Purgatory--The Shuck--Herbal for Anna Hartnett--Legend of the Lamp Room--THE TROUBLED 33--Shelling Hill--Sermon on the Mountjoy Side-Step--Incident in the Life of Michael Davitt--Pellets of Stanza and Prose--No Sign Given to It--Clonallis, Late Summer--Nutting--The Broken Stile--Pomona--IXION S WHEEL 57--Near Sizewell Beach--Not Yacht-Club--Eurydice--Rhymes for Eurydice--The Gardens Quartet--Up and Under--Allotments--LAST THING 75--Numbers for Josh and Abigail Cohen--Miserere--For Bice Portinari, For Example--Matin--Salt and Light--One Animal s Return--Nearby Drung, County Cavan--The Enlightened Cave Colophon