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The Mining Road - O'Sullivan, Leanne
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The Mining Road, Leanne O'Sullivan's third poetry collection, finds inspiration in the disused copper mines that haunt the rugged terrain around Allihies, near her home at Beara, in West Cork. Like remnants of a lost world, the mines' ruined towers, shafts, man-engines and dressing floors, evoke an elemental landscape in which men and women laboured above as well as underground, and even mined in caverns below sea level. Mining promotes a sense of memory, and the riches embedded in the landscape are human as well as ...

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The Mining Road 2013, Bloodaxe Books Ltd, Tyne and Wear

ISBN-13: 9781852249687

Paperback