Description:
Amplified Silence explores the pleasures of memory as well as the sorrows of aging, These poems will long linger qnd draw the reader back to open the book yet again, as time passes.
Brief description: Kieran Egan, Professor Emeritus at Simon Fraser University and a member of the Royal Society of Canada. His chapbook, 'Among the branches, ' was published by Alfred Gustav Press, in June, 2019. He was shortlisted for the Times Literary Supplement Mick Imlah prize in 2017 and the Acumen International Poetry Competition, 2020. His poems have appeared in many national and international magazines. In a former life he published around twenty more or less academic books, with forty or so translations into about twenty other languages. Kieran Egan lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Review Quotes:
Each finely crafted poem in this well-tempered, mellow and warily wise collection voices the mature savoir-faire of one who has surveyed the natural and human landscapes - local, familial and across the globe, their myths and histories - in expansive depth, with caring insight. Weighing what is rememberable against what tends to be forgotten, Amplified Silence shows how "the past reaches forward," while precisely measuring the volume-level at which silence itself rises to speak. In multiple dimensions it will leave readers moved and enlarged. Allan Briesmaster, author of "Confluences" and "The Long Bond".
Though shadowed by a keen sense of history and a clear-eyed awareness of violence, Egan's humorously thoughtful poetry excels at evoking the lives of children and animals and at exploring the pleasures of memory as well as the sadness of ageing, His linguistic skills will charm and beguile. Christopher Levenson, co-founder and first editor of ARC magazine. and author of "Night Vision" and "A Tattered Coat Upon a Stick
Diverse journeys, both actual and imagined, coalesce in a collection that not only explores those occasional flashes of grace and "happy lightning" during a lifetime, but also the "slow slaughter" of aging. Insights about memory, humanity and mortality bloom from the "root of this writing hand" and will linger in the mind long after the reader turns the last page. Fiona Tinwei Lam-author of "Odes and Laments" and "Enter the Crysanthemum".