Pre-Owned Waiting for Saint Brendan and Other Poems (Paperback) 1908836059 9781908836052

This striking and subtle debut is a collection of wide scope and pointillist detail. Native to Ireland but relocated in childhood to Brussels and New England, David McLoghlin writes about emigration and a search for belonging, about betrayal and abuse, about the imagined private lives of the saints, and the geometries of loss and love on the New York subway. In so doing, he offers the reader a first collection that is at once expansive and refined: an uncommon blend of scope and pointillist detail. David McLoghlin was born in Dublin in 1972, and studied at University College Dublin, where he was awarded First-class honours for his Master's thesis on the Spanish poet Luis Cernuda. He also holds an MFA in Creative Writing from New York University, where he was an editor of Washington Square review, and received a fellowship to teach creative writing to patients at Goldwater Hospital. His poems have appeared in literary journals such as Poetry Ireland Review, Cyphers, and The Stinging Fly. He received an Arts Council Bursary in 2006, was awarded 2nd prize in the 2008 Patrick Kavanagh Awards, and most recently was the Howard Nemerov Scholar at the 2011 Sewanee Writers' Conference. He currently lives in New York. www.davidmcloghlin.com .