Harm’s Way

Cnor Carville's first collection of poems moves back and forth in time, and across the world, to listen to accounts of harm and the means by which it has been resisted or overcome. The poems probe how violence and abuse reverberate through history and memory, politics and psychology, be it through the voices of St Patrick's sister Anaxagoras of Clazomenae, Kandinsky, Walter Benjamin, an 18th century mariner or a modern-day wheelie bin. Moving and incisive, the poems also combine memories of childhood and youth in Northern Ireland with reflections on the globalised present.