What I Learned From Johnny Bevan Maria Donovan The Drowning of the Saints

The Drowning of the Saints is one of the best first collections this reviewer has read in a long time and Paul Perry is certainly one of the most exciting Irish poets writing now

Oz Hardwick

washing does "its line-dance"

rising to the challenge of the skald’s affirmation: you are the people in the land

Indiana Review

What I Learned From Johnny Bevan Maria Donovan The Drowning of the SaintsWhat I Learned From Johnny Bevan is a politically charged modern epic by celebrated poet Luke Wright. Written in electrifying verse, this is a story of friendship, class ceilings and the battle for the soul of the Left. At university the mercurial Johnny Bevan saves Nick, smashing his comfortable middle class bubble and firing him up about politics, music and books. Twenty years later, as their youthful dreams disintegrate alongside the social justice