Keats Lives

Keats Lives is Moya Cannon's fifth collection of poems. It is rich in the moods and rhythms of the poet's western Irish homeland, its seascapes and mountain ranges. But it also travels further afield, to contemplate the triumphs and mistakes of earlier centuries, their 'many victories, many collars, little grace'. 'What shift of bedrock, what metamorphosis,' asks the poet, 'might heal such wounded...