The Readiness by Alan Gillis Mairan de Vooght the poet and the poem

the poet and the poem - in a vibrant celebration of life

– by one of the greatest poets of all time

for the elegy and the urgency and the prophecy

and so he glows in the dark

The Readiness by Alan Gillis Mairan de Vooght the poet and the poemAlan Gillis one of the most admired Irish poets of his generation addresses some of the most pressing concerns of the age: how can we live at the centre of our contemporary paradox, disconnected and hyper connected as we are? A poet of thresholds and crossings, Gillis finds his answers in the suburbs and edgelands, at the hesitation before the doorstep or the gate. The Readiness sites itself at the heart of our human contradictions, and explores their