The Gallery Press and Clifden Arts Festival hope you will join us to celebrate the Clifden launch of That’s It by Eamon Grennan on Thursday, 16 April at 2.30pm in the Omey Suite, Station House Hotel, Clifden, County Galway. Family and friends will read Eamon’s poems.
That’s It
A poet who knew from the beginning the values and rewards of paying attention finds himself at the opening of That’s It, his final book of poems, ‘in the dark’, ‘in numbered days and nights’, from which he takes abiding comfort in the solace of language.
The collection describes a present where ‘there’s nothing left — / not even the memory’. But Eamon Grennan’s resilience endures while — as ever in his poetry — there are birds, ‘their sweet salutes’, a ‘symphony orchestra / that never slips out / of time or tune’. This moving, sorrow-filled book still finds ‘first leaves / of the fresh, hope-lit / autumn morning’. It is a testimony to a special spirit.
