Seán Mac Falls
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Seán Mac Falls (born 18 November 1957) is an Irish poet. Belonging to no group or movement and operating outside of literary fashions, his brand of symbolist poetry can, at first reading, appear difficult. His deft use of allusion, startling diction and subtle punning display submerged metaphor in his work. The overall effect being a fresh implementation of Imagism. He has published two books of poetry and several chapbooks. His first collection of poems, 20 Poems (2001 ISBN 1929812051) received extraordinary praise, first from Oxford University don, John Carey, who compared the poet to W. B. Yeats, and later from Harold Bloom. Several of the poems were Pushcart Prize nominations and appeared in major UK magazines such as Agenda, The London Magazine and Stand Magazine. A second book, The Blue Falcon, was published in 2005.
