Ponies at the Point by Ben M. Baglio, ISBN 0590662317
Mandy and her friend James are vacationing in Ireland, home of the wild Connemara ponies. A wounded foal offers clues that someone is trying to steal the ponies, and Mandy and James set out to find the horse thieves.
Meditations, with Distractions: Poems, 1988-1998 by James J. McAuley, ISBN 1557287007
At the center of James McAuley's new collection -- the work of over a decade since his previous book, Coming & Going, New & Selected -- is the sequence, "God's Pattern", meditations on the Stations of the Cross, an old devotional form of pilgrimage or "pattern" still practiced in rural parishes of the poet's native country, Ireland. The meditations are interrupted by several "distractions", hence the book's title. Forming a more casual sequence of sorts, from a longish work in progress, are the poems from "Hospital", a mythic institution we all have to visit some time or another, where comedy and tragedy are also frequent visitors.
Theme and treatment vary throughout the collection from somber reflection on the fate of a drunk in a cheap hotel room ("Cantata for the Feast of St. Anonymous") to the scathing Celtic-style satire, "The Gingriad". McAuley is well regarded for his experiments with traditional forms and rhythms: herein are blank-verse narratives and elegies, a Haiku sequence...
Meditations, with Distractions: Poems, 1988-1998 by James J. McAuley, ISBN 1557287007
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The Archaeology of Early Medieval Ireland
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