Visions at Templeglantine

Name: Visions at Templeglantine
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John W. Sexton was born in 1958 and is the author of six previous poetry collections: The Prince’s Brief Career, Foreword by Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, (Cairn Mountain Press, 1995), Shadows Bloom / Scáthanna Faoi Bhláth, a book of haiku with translations into Irish by Gabriel Rosenstock (Doghouse, 2004), Vortex (Doghouse, 2005), Petit Mal (Revival Press 2009), The Offspring of the Moon (Salmon Poetry 2013) and Futures Pass (Salmon Poetry 2018). A chapbook of his surrealist poetry, Inverted Night, came out from SurVision in April 2019.

Category: Revival Press Tags: books, co. limerick, ireland, John W Sexton, literature, maigue poets, michael hartnett, poetry, revival press

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John W Sexton is a poet who identifies with the Irish Aisling tradition. The aisling was a form of vision poem developed by Aodhagán Ó Rathaille at the beginning of the 1700’s. This sequence of poems Visions at Templeglantine was the result of a series of visions, dreams, and insights into early memories. However, throughout the text, many literary and personal allusions entered into the writing.

Also by John W. Sexton from Revival Press

“John W. Sexton is probably my favorite Irish poet of the 21st century, and I was happy to have a chance to look at his fourth collection, Petit Mal. Stretched over 86 pages of poems, Sexton uses a variety of styles, primarily free verse to explore any number of topics with a clean, penetrating insight (and frequently a good dose of humor) that I’ve often found lacking in American poetics.”.