Lives and Miracles by Vincent Woods, drawings by Charles Cullen, ISBN 1903631246

SIGNED BY VINCENT WOODS ON THE TITLE PAGE (without dedication); Arlen House 2002 1st ed, 133pp., text generally in decent order albeit with slight browning to page edges and an old erased pencil price & date visible to the top right hand corner of the front free end paper, rear board very slightly warped, very slight bumping to board corners & to top, bottom & sides of boards, bumping & rubbing to the top & bottom of the spine, both boards very slightly marked, the dust jacket has slight internal browning, is rubbed (quite heavily so) & creased at top & bottom with a couple of scuff marks to the right hand edge of the inside rear blurb & a number of marks & scratches on front & rear (including slight loss of cellophane to the rear bottom left hand corner along with an original price sticker).

Lives and Miracles maps a territory of place, memory, character and event; part testament, part act of imagination. Grounded in a
vernacular idiom, and using many forms: narrative, dramatic lyric, rhyme and ballad metre, these poems capture voices and stories of
Irish life with humour and compassion. The Life and Miracles of Christy McGaddy received the Ted McNulty poetry award 2002. The
collection contains thirty five drawings by Charles Cullen which derive from the poems and from the landscapes of County Leitrim in
which the poems are set.

Vincent Woods (born 1960) is an Irish poet and playwright. He currently hosts The Arts Show on RTÉ Radio 1. Woods was born in County Leitrim. He studied Journalism in the College of Commerce, Rathmines. Woods lived in the United States, New Zealand, and Australia and worked as a journalist with Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ) until 1989. Woods' radio play, The Leitrim Hotel, won the P. J. O'Connor award for radio drama, and he also won The Stewart Parker Award for Drama in 1993. His poetry collections include The Colour of Language. Woods is a member of Aosdána. His playwriting credits include A Cry from Heaven, At the Black Pig's Dyke, John Hughdy and Tom John, and Song of the Yellow Bittern. He has recently written songs for Irish singer Mary McPartlan for her album Petticoat Loose. The songs are "Sanctuary", "Kiss the Moon" and "Petticoat Loose."



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