My Life as a Painter by Matthew Sweeney Mike Watts and the legendary are given

and the legendary are given a voice in Carol Ann Duffy's sparkling and inventive collection

Fiere – Scots for ‘companion

she has published 11 volumes of poetry

Miki Byrne

but he’s still the actor he was

My Life as a Painter by Matthew Sweeney Mike Watts and the legendary are givenMatthew Sweeneys palette in My Life as a Painter his twelfth collection features a wild mix of birds and animals: lizards, snakes, rats, camels, donkeys, feral cats, dogs and owls. One dog transmits telepathic requests for the food he wants, and theres a parrot who speaks as ambassador for the bird world. Sweeneys canvas here is the transhuman: where boundaries between human and non human cant be fixed, dreams turn into torments, secrets stay hidden,