Swimming With Horses by Nicholas Hogg #Irishpoetry It is a poetry that

It is a poetry that appears seamless

many of these poems respond to a landscape as beautiful as it is disquieting

What followed has been even more destructive and disorientating: wars

and Ethiopia’s Christian relics are pillaged by Victorian imperialists ('The Gap')

Swimming With Horses by Nicholas Hogg #Irishpoetry It is a poetry thatSwimming with Horses by Nicholas Hogg gathers poems of travel, witness, and working class memory across a wide geographical and historical reach, moving from a Pembroke College room once occupied by Ted Hughes to the radioactive deep time of a nuclear waste repository. Hogg's poetry is preoccupied with reading and writing as acts of preservation against war, extinction, and erasure, returning often to its literary inheritances in Burnside, Drake,