About Blood by John D. Kelly

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ABOUT BLOOD is a vigorous collection about love, childhood, nature, the environment, suffering, and more. Kelly’s voice ranges from the urgent and apocalyptic to the gentle and consolatory. Blood, in its myriad symbolic and literal manifestations, pulses like a heartbeat throughout. The imagery is often visceral, always precise, sometimes arcane, and richly allusive. The language is direct and powerful, and there is a reassuring facility with style and form, particularly the ekphrastic. Lead Belly, Velazquez, Elvis, Zane Grey, among others, all find room in the poet’s panoptic view of the world. Birds are central, be they as predators, or ‘wise primal seers.’ This is a daring, sanguine collection, unflinching in its commitment to its craft, and confronting what it means to be human, to be conscious of ‘the space where I am.’ I strongly recommend this book.

 

 

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John D. Kelly was born in Belfast in 1959. He has lived in Co. Fermanagh since 2011 and it was only then that he first turned his focus onto writing poetry seriously. Since then, his work has been published widely in literary magazines and anthologies in Ireland, UK, USA, Austria and Canada including: Poetry Ireland Review, Magma, Southword, Skylight 47, Montreal International, Cyphers, Poetry Salzburg Review, Hive Journal, Crannog, The Honest Ulsterman, O’ Bheal Five Words, The Stony Thursday Book, The Cormorant, The Galway Review, Fish Anthology, Hungry Hill, Plaza Anthologies, Abridged, Poetry N.I.,Visions International, etc. His writing has been placed, shortlisted and commended in numerous competitions. Among several awards, he won The Plaza Poetry Prize (60 lines); 2024, the Listowel Poetry Short Collection Award and the Desmond O’Grady Poetry Competition; 2020, and Poets Meet Painters in 2015. His first collection: The Loss of Yellowhammers was published by Summer Palace Press in 2020.

 

 

 

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