Once Was A Boy by Theo Dorgan Art Beck or a set of modular

or a set of modular combinations

explain and address life as it is lived in the 21st Century

The Atlantic horizon ‘where the sun lies down in the west to die’ is mirrored inland by corruption and rot

for it was here that he cut his poetic teeth and became a major Lithuanian poet

These are close-to-the-bone pieces

Once Was A Boy by Theo Dorgan Art Beck or a set of modularThe bells that break on the morning air at the opening of Theo Dorgans new collection of poems signal both the beginning of an ordinary day in his native Cork, but also a return to his time as a schoolboy there, a time and place made extraordinary by the attention and focus of a youngster beginning to make sense of the world, and, in particular, learning the weight and power of language (The words are awkward, shaping themselves in my head, testing