Paperback edition of the memoir of the author's childhood, portraying his father's timber workshop and his mother's work on an old Singer sewing machine. With lots of descriptions of the natural world, it's a true tale of family, love, loss and renewal.
Patrick Deeley was born in the townland of Foxhall, outside Loughrea, Co. Galway, in 1953. He has published six highly acclaimed collections of poems with Dedalus Press including Decoding Samara, The Bones of Creation, and Groundswell: New and Selected Poems. In addition his poems have appeared in many leading literary outlets in Ireland, UK, USA, Canada and Australia, been widely translated and won a number of awards. Patrick is married to th...
Deeley is an Irish poet with a profound sense of place and of ecological awareness. Born in Loughrea, County, Galway, in 1953, he grew up on the edge of a wetland meadow, or callows, whose flora and fauna have provided an enduring theme for his writing over some 30 years.
Patrick Deeley's fourth poetry collection uses the imagery of trees to explore human emotions. The poems move from mythology -- the Dryads of the woods, the local legends -- to a suburban landscape where the memories of trees and the presence of timber create an unsettling effect, imaging that of the human struggle to make sense of our environment. The title signifies coming to understand the relationship with our environment, samara being the...