- Published: 18 January 2011
- ISBN: 9781446448038
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 80
Black Moon
- Published: 18 January 2011
- ISBN: 9781446448038
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 80
Grim as death and very funny
Guardian
Here are the small and great truths of the imagination that bursts forth out of our daily lives. Sweeney's poems are reflective, funny, supremely inventive and impeccably written. This is contemporary poetry at its very best
Charles Simic
His gift is to venture into unexpected territory... luminous stories springing from a rare and dark imagination
Nick Laird
Matthew Sweeney is a unique force for good in British poetry. The work is one large metaphor: a parable for the human condition... He is one of our finest poets of the unconscious; of darkness brought to light adn madly, glintingly, against all expectation, shared
Ruth Padel
Sweeney's imagination is fascinated by all the ways we say no to experience, and how those denials build an enigmatic and above all deeply personal architecture around us
Claire Wills, Irish Times