Vinegar Hill

By: Colm Tóibín

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Paperback | 2 August 2022

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128 Pages

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21.5 x 13.6 x 1.4

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From the highly acclaimed author of Brooklyn, Colm Toibins first collection of poetry explores sexuality, religion and belonging through a modern lens.

Fans of Colm Toibins novels, including The Magician, The Master and Nora Webster, will relish the opportunity to re-encounter Toibin in verse. Vinegar Hill explores the liminal space between private experiences and public events as Toibin examines a wide range of subjects - politics, queer love, reflections on literary and artistic greats, living through COVID, memory and a fading past, and facing mortality.

The poems reflect a life well-travelled and well-lived; from growing up in the town of Enniscorthy, wandering the streets of Dublin and Barcelona, and crossing the bridges of Venice to visiting the White House, readers will travel through familiar locations and new destinations through Toibins unique lens.

Within this rich collection of poems written over the course of several decades, shot through with keen observation, emotion and humour, Toibin offers us lines and verses to provoke, ponder and cherish.

Industry Reviews

The hallmark of this quite assured and at times deeply-affecting volume, is a soft-souled probing of the lived and the felt, in ways that amplify the ordinary into art...Toibin writes with immense and at times expansive clarity, but in doing so, is able to trigger multiform responses in his reader. A weathered, well-toured life emerges, all of its complexity and depth made redolent by a sure-footed lucidity. In Vinegar Hill Toibin, now past middle-age, deploys a sustained vision by which the passing of things is relished, and made to go.
Omar Sabbagh, The High Window

Toibins sense of narrative momentum is well served, and without constraint...Vinegar Hill is a moving, learned and profoundly wise collection.
Steve Whitaker, The Yorkshire Times

A renowned novelist, Toibin brings his keen eye for vivid narrative detail... There is a lingering melancholy in Toibins work, particularly in his sparse reflections on ageing and death... Vinegar Hill offers the pleasure of a slow, meandering walk, as if the reader and poet have companionably "decid[ed] to take / The slow way home".
Mary Jean Chan, The Guardian

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