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Atlantic Fret
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By: Stephen de Búrca
Publisher: The Gallery Press
Published: May 2026
Pages: 80
Categories: Literature, Poetry
Language: English
Available as: Paperback
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ISBN-13: 9781917371292

Atlantic Fret unveils a focus, indeed a constancy of purpose, uncommon in a first collection. From the Blasket Islands in the opening poem to Iceland — the book concluding with adaptations of an Icelandic modernist classic — Stephen de Búrca embraces the idea of the Atlantic Ocean as the source of chaos from which the Cosmos grew. Against the backdrop of climate change the Ocean shares the burden of grief while offering a space for sexual freedom and self-expression. In its impressive range of formal attainment, including the elegiac title sequence and the imaginative ‘Tide Clock’ sequence, Atlantic Fret reveals a writer sensitively attuned to inner and outer tensions, ‘to what the reeds, / curving like fishing rods, might be reeling in — // the shadows of small fish, the currents / at odds with one another, the river coming to terms / with sea water’. The result is a poetry collection that is genuinely affecting.

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