The Third City by James Peake Seren Based on Dorian Rottenberg’s 1967

Based on Dorian Rottenberg’s 1967 translation

To the crystalline abstractions that Rushmer inherits from French poetry is added Taoist-inspired spirituality and the influence of Chinese and Japanese calligraphy in an amalgam of great beauty

can we reimagine what we have been given in order to make something new: an identity

Victoria Kennefick grew up in Cork and lives in Kerry

The Third City by James Peake Seren Based on Dorian Rottenberg’s 1967Published 21st April 2025. In The Third City, his most remarkable collection to date, James Peake once more offers us his unique combination of dream like fluency and intellectual rigour. New and returning readers will discover an even more expansive poet in these pages, one who in poem after poem uncovers our capacity to love in full knowledge of the odds. Here Peake confirms his reputation for "pin sharp and trance like poems' (Wild Court) which