The Pop-up Book of Invasions

The Book of Invasions? Lebor Gabála Érenn? is a compilation of manuscripts describing the very specific discovery of Ireland (?on the fifteenth, on a Saturday') following the Creation and the Flood. The Pop-Up Book of Invasions is Fiona Farrell's poetic response to a six-month stay in Ireland as inaugural recipient of the Rathcoola Residency in County Cork. Part travelogue, part family record, part song and myth and history rewritten, this collection revels and laments in equal measure in a landscape deeply inscribed with narrative. The poems in The Pop-up Book draw heavily and vividly.;Cover; Half-title; Title Page; Dedication; Epigraph; Table of Contents; Introduction; The invasion; The Way of the Dishes; Spades; The Book of the Dun Cow; The winner; Blow-in; The little girl; Following cows; Echo; The canoe in the National Museum; Beckett; Lace; Cursing stones; Potatoes; Politics and economics; Tarmac; The Butter Road; Line; The News; The Speckled Book; Gobnait; Genealogy; Sheela-na-gig; The dogs of Ireland; Betting; Gold; Rolling over; Ballad; How I'd take the country; Midden; Waving; Well; The Lonely Planet visits the dead; Rail; Crop; Lissadell; Hunting; The Battler. The Book of Invasions – Lebor Gabála Érenn – is a compilation of manuscripts describing the very specific discovery of Ireland ('on the fifteenth, on a Saturday') following the Creation and the Flood. The Pop-Up Book of Invasions is Fiona Farrell's poetic response to a six-month stay in Ireland as inaugural recipient of the Rathcoola Residency in County Cork. Part travelogue, part family record, part song and myth and history rewritten, this collection revels and laments in equal measure in a landscape deeply inscribed with narrative. The poems in The Pop-up Book draw heavily and vividly on the landscape, history and mythology of Ireland, sharing a sense of discovery, but they also make connections with home, New Zealand, childhood. Thus a canoe in the National Museum, 'Black boat from a brown bog', recalls the waka: 'You think of yours as I think of/mine, setting sail in their black/canoe'. The poet also remembers her Irish father now dead who emigrated... Cover Half-title Title Page Dedication Epigraph Table of Contents Introduction The invasion The Way of the Dishes Spades The Book of the Dun Cow The winner Blow-in The little girl Following cows Echo The canoe in the National Museum Beckett Lace Cursing stones Potatoes Politics and economics Tarmac The Butter Road Line The News The Speckled Book Gobnait Genealogy Sheela-na-gig The dogs of Ireland Betting Gold Rolling over Ballad How I'd take the country Midden Waving Well The Lonely Planet visits the dead Rail Crop Lissadell Hunting The Battler. Poet, Novelist and above all PatriotThe brown bull Seed The flood Road The long way round Hair The Hag of Beare The Lament of the Nun of Beare Dance Bed The verb 'to be' Daffodils Marginalia Copyright. Offering poems that draw vividly on the landscape, history, and mythology of Ireland—while making connections with her home and childhood—this collection of poems reflects the author's personal journey and the many'invasions'of past and present. She adapts and transforms several ancient Irish texts, rewriting their stories for a contemporary world.