Swimming With Horses by Nicholas Hogg #Irishpoetry Glasgow Review of Books The

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Swimming With Horses by Nicholas Hogg #Irishpoetry Glasgow Review of Books TheSwimming with Horses by Nicholas Hogg gathers poems of travel, witness, and working class memory across a wide geographical and historical reach, moving from a Pembroke College room once occupied by Ted Hughes to the radioactive deep time of a nuclear waste repository. Hogg's poetry is preoccupied with reading and writing as acts of preservation against war, extinction, and erasure, returning often to its literary inheritances in Burnside, Drake,