Plenitude bt Thomas McCarthy classics to surprise and astonish

to surprise and astonish

a foreword by Giovanna Coppola and an afterword by Valentina Bin

sustained by its fragile continuities

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unpacking their meaning and resonance in the 21st Century

Plenitude bt Thomas McCarthy classics to surprise and astonishFollowing upon McCarthy's Pandemonium(2016) and Prophecy (2019), both from Carcanet, Plenitude marks a moment of completion and buoyant plenty in a very real and contemporary Irish world. Enriched at all times by a sense of history the precise histories of heritage gardens, of novelists such as Molly Keane and Waterford neighbours who had gone to the Great War his is a poetry of both brief formal lyric and longer historical meditation. A working