Like a Tree Cut Back

By: Michael McCarthy

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Paperback | 1 January 2021

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160 Pages

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13.8 x 21.5 x 2.6

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Like a Tree Cut Back weaves a memoir of Michael McCarthy from his boyhood in rural Ireland - overshadowed by an incident that resulted in the death of his brother - to his journey towards priesthood and poetry.

Interspersed throughout is a brief history of Carlow College, 19th Century Catholic Ireland's answer to Trinity College, Dublin, and - as McCarthy shows - a training ground for priests, apostles and rebels.

Part history, part memoir and part meditation, this outstanding book of poetry and prose confirms Michael McCarthy as a powerful storyteller and an acute observer of the human condition.

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McCarthy, as child, is a revelation of innocent observation. [...] The stylistic simplicity of his prose yields a neat counterpoint to the tender, aching lyricism of the poems, [which] transfigure experience, finding beauty in the hitherto prosaic. - The Yorkshire Times

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