The Vulture by Gerard Woodward #Irishpoetry The title poem sums up

The title poem sums up the chiaroscuro of this collection

to delve deeper - whether you're on your own or with friends

two poets confident in their own traditions meet in the hinterland between translation and collaboration - Cyril Jones from the disciplines of Welsh cynghanedd

with preservation and redemption

the Christmas girls and Christmas boys

The Vulture by Gerard Woodward #Irishpoetry The title poem sums upThe vulture, the presiding genius of Gerard Woodwards collection, is at once sympathetic and awful, intimate and other. Woodward naturally positions himself at uncomfortable borders and thresholds, and in doing so alerts us to the flimsiness of the conceits of home, of family and human culture. Many poets have challenged our lazy habit of addressing nature though the pathetic fallacy; few have had the nerve to consciously embrace it as a subversive