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Praise for FALLING INTO PLACE
I welcome this first collection by Anton Floyd (Falling Into Place from Revival Press, 2018) with open arms because it is a breath of fresh air on the Irish poetry scene. A long time in the making, it is a very revealing book about the poet and his makeup. The places in ‘Falling Into Place’ are […]
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JIM BURKE Review
Falling Into Place is an assured and illuminating poetry debut by Anton Floyd, an Irish poet who is a Levantine mix of Irish, Maltese, English and French Lebanese. Born in Cairo, Egypt and raised in Cyprus, Floyd experienced firsthand the Cypriot struggle for independence. The title, Falling Into Place, carries connotations of innocence, love, family, and place, […]
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BRIAN KIRK Review
Text of speech given by Brian Kirk at the launch of ‘Depositions’ by Anton Floyd on World Refugee Day, 20th June 2022 at the National Bahá’í Centre, Dublin. When we think of the word deposition we generally think in legal terms: a sworn statement or testimony given outside of court by a person involved in […]
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Appreciations of DEPOSITIONS
These are poems of love and loss, war and dispossession, searching and finding, but above all the trauma and desolation of civil war. Beautifully observed and eloquently told, they gleam, with a bright Greek light, as if they were recomposed from fragments of old codices. These are truly poems of the dispossessed. William Wall Poetry […]