Belfast from Space: New and Selected Poems

Belfast from Space: New and Selected Poems draws from more than 30 years of work by a distinctive voice in contemporary Irish poetry. From his debut Grub – winner of the 1994 Brendan Behan Memorial Prize and shortlisted for the Forward Prize for a first collection – to The Resurrection of the Body at Killysuggen, Mooney has been driven by a fierce engagement with ordinary speech and popular culture, as well as high art and an exploratory poetics.

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‘I envy the reader who’s encountering Mooney’s work here for the first time […] His willingness to observe the least obvious subject from the most unlikely point of view has reaped moments of epistemic reflection unrivalled in Irish poetry from any era.’

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– Scott McKendry, from his Introduction

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