Namanlagh by Tom Paulin Mike Ferguson University of Huddersfield

University of Huddersfield

I think about how significance is thrown up within the pause between two moments: a door held ajar

fictional memoir

'Through the cadence of these poems

Namanlagh by Tom Paulin Mike Ferguson University of HuddersfieldI guess I must have been in two minds about the new day as the daylight gods began to march in straight lines going I don't know where from 'The Spare Room' In his first collection for more than a decade, Tom Paulin revisits themes of place, occupation, conflict and legacy, primarily in the context of his native Northern Ireland. Stories and memories, even histories, are shown to be both frail and persistent, troubling and vital. There is a powerful