Lives of the Saints by Mícheál McCann The Very Selected and expression

and expression

and how these objects resonate with events in our lives

past and present

In Guises he builds on the strengths of twelve previous collections

Lives of the Saints by Mícheál McCann The Very Selected and expressionAs in his rapturously received first collection, Devotion, in which Mchel McCann took a classic Irish elegy and applied it to contemporary Belfast so, in Lives of the Saints, he takes biographical details of religious figures and situates them in current states of experience and feeling. Centrepieces of this eclectic collection are an ode to a recycling centre and 'The Impossible Request' in which the author's grandmother forgets that he has told her