What News, Centurions?
Colm Scully (2014)
Paperback, ISBN 978-0-9574661-8-0
What News, Centurions? leads us on a fanciful odyssey from the early Christian world of Skellig Michael to a post-apocalyptic voice from some planet on another star. It meanders, through adventures on board the first ship to circumnavigate the earth to ghostly meetings during everyday occurrences, like watering the back garden in early summer. These are all conduits for the same query - finding our place in the world. In 2014, Colm won The Cúirt New Writing Poetry Prize, and was selected for the Poetry Ireland Introductory Series, while he was also commended in the Gregory O’Donoghue Prize.
"Heart Measurements & Stolen Centurions", Róisín Kelly reviews What News, Centurions? in Southword, Issue 27A, April 2015
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