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John O'Leary, Sea, Seattle: Zenane Independent Media, 2004,
paper covers, 77 pp., ISBN 0-9716464-1-4
Sea, a book whose elemental title holds out archetypal promises, is the latest volume of poems by John O'Leary, poet-in-residence and warrior/shaman at the Allihies Centre in Ireland and graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge. It arrives hard on the heels of Salt, his collection of 2003, and is, indeed, best read as a sequel and complement to that volume. Like Salt, Sea consists of 77 poems (all Roman-numbered, all untitled) which may be approximately called sonnets: they conform to the conventions of the sonnet genre by each having fourteen lines, but also flout those same conventions by rhyming sporadically rather than throughout, and by being for the most part unorthodoxly short in their line-length, averaging about one-half the genre's classical ten-syllable line. We may, at all events, treat them for practical purposes as sonnets - and, indeed, love-sonnets - in that sense following on from Salt with its similar subject-matter, and inviting comparison with one of the more famous practitioners of that genre, William Shakespeare.
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