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Shadowlands is a haunting landscape of love and loss, a mystical journey of remembrance and longing that spans a lifetime and beyond. Each poem—even the darkest–resonates with a vibration of light glimpsed through eyes…like portals-opening into the soul. Indeed, there are a number of references that hint of the poet’s observation, wonder and contemplation from an early age. Kieran Beville offers to us a richly textured terrain of grief and joy and all the varying shades of experience and sentiments in between. Wise, powerful, passionate and tender, Shadwlands is a land that connects us all, with neither division nor boundaries. It is a memorable revelation of and tribute to the courage and resilience of the undying human spirit… It is, in fact, in his last section, Loss of Humanity–arguably his most powerful– that it all comes together in one meaningful whole. Devoted to bringing attention to the War in Gaza and the plight of the Palestinian people…each poem paints a stunning and poignant portrait…heartfelt suffering comes to light through the ordinary and extraordinary details of everyday life.
— Antonia Alexandra Klimenko (Poet in Residence at Paris Spoken Word)
Kieran Beville is author of Write Now – A Practical Guide to Becoming a Writer (Limerick Writers’ Centre, 2019). He has had a substantial number of poems and articles published in various newspapers, journals and magazines and five collections of poetry (Revival Press). His book, Pulling Back the Clouds is a short biography of Mike Kelly, collector of the die-cast model aircraft display at Shannon Airport (Limerick Writers’ Centre, 2020). Shadowlands is his sixth volume of poetry.
