Landfall by Liam Aungier

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Liam Aungier’s poetry is one of precision. Whatever he touches we see it with sharper eyes. He takes a moment or an animal or a situation, examines it, turns it, weighs it and recreates it for us with the freshness and clarity of a mountain spring. He does something else: he makes poetry. There is joy and pleasure in the craft itself, in the act of shaping the right words for the proper saying. ‘Beauty’ is a word long banished from descriptions of poetry. It fits perfectly for this collection. – Alan Titley

 

 

Description

Liam Aungier was born in Dublin but grew up, and still lives, in Co. Kildare. He has had poems in The Irish Times, Poetry Ireland Review, Cyphers, The SHOp and elsewhere. His poems have also been broadcast on RTE Radio One.

Liam studied Architectural Drawing at the Carlow campus of what is now the South East Technical University. He has also studied with the Open University.

Prior to the publication of his first collection, Apples in Winter, he twice came second in the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award, and was winner of both the Cootehill and of the Clonmel poetry competitions. He also came second in the Gerald Manley Hopkins Poetry Competition.