Its Words You Want; Patrick Kehoe (Salmon Poetry)

The earliest of these poems reflect time spent in Barcelona where Patrick Kehoe taught English. Indeed many of the poems in this debut collection conjure the life of a young man abroad in that city, five years or so after the death of General Franco. Other poems pay moving tribute to his late parents and the people of his native city, Enniscorthy, Ireland, as well as revisiting Barcelona, and evoking the sensuous, luxuriant mediations and the shimmering essence of a Corfu summer.