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prickles / like blood returning’
INTERVIEW A writer at night
filled with spirited and well-informed essays by a man who has listened to and loved the music passionately and critically for more than 50 years
and Elias Khoury
In the long sea-silence
The Breaking of the Day Gillian Clarke prickles / like blood returning’The Breaking of the Day is a book built around a 3 piece title sequence as Michael Heffernan, now in his seventies, reflects on life from his own backyard. The poems venture outwards to take in the whole of Ireland, northern Michigan and the shores of the Great Lakes, even a tumbledown Parisian backstreet. Together they convey an increasing uncertainty in the power of human testimony, seeking solace in the control of the classical metre and vision of