The Bright Room by Michael McCarthy Em Strang good-humoured

good-humoured

weather-torn open spaces

Memories of what was ‘shrieking

spiked with humour

This substantial volume is a tribute to the maturing voice of an essential poet

The Bright Room by Michael McCarthy Em Strang good-humouredThe Bright Room brings together poems written over the last decade. This outstanding book confirms Michael McCarthy as an insightful storyteller: wise and grounded in the everyday the poems nevertheless celebrate the numinous moments in all our lives. As poet and as priest, Michael McCarthy in this book bears a sort of witness to the world, at that point where the ordinary touches upon the eternal. Bill Herbert