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ADVANCE PRAISE FOR RECONSTRUCTIONS

‘Reconstructions is a wondrous outburst. Steafán Hanvey’s poems are an unrestrained response to the work of his father, the great Irish photographer Bobbie Hanvey. They are bold improvisations on his themes of conflict and community. These heartfelt refractions find their own shape. They are nobly dishevelled, and they cry out to be read.’

Michael Longley

‘This unique and heady blend of documented violence and photographic memory poses timely questions for present social understanding of the way we were. [Its] drama and tragicomic wit ... is both potent and devastating ....’

Medbh McGuckian

‘Authentic, innovative and keenly honed prose poetry ... An astonishing and visceral work that strikes clean to the often-dark but always-shining heart of Northern Ireland. A heady combination of words that set the pictures alight.’

Billy O’Callaghan

‘Steafán Hanvey was eyewitness to the genesis of so many of his father’s famous photographs, and it is obvious that the father’s iconic work has lain in the darkroom of the son’s memory and imagination, waiting to be developed into prose-poems of poignancy and power, showcased now in Reconstructions, a stunning symbiosis of word and image.’

Adrian Rice