In Frank McGuinness's sixth collection imagination and recollection combine to register historical and political moments ('Burnfoot', 'The Battle of Clontibret', and 'The Protestant Boys'), a son haunted by his father and the author's marriage in the Cardiac Unit of a Belfast hospital. Poems prompted by Bruegel the Elder and Gericault join versions of Lorca and Villon. Infused with an Oriental sensibility the book embraces far-flung places - Machu Picchu, the Ho Chi Minh Trail and the bus to Fatima. Frank McGuinness's finest collection, The Wedding Breakfast, concludes with a stunning elegy ('Who Could Survive the Atlantic Ocean?') for Danny Sheehy
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