Poetry. "'History is the nightmare from which I am struggling to awake,' James Joyce wrote, and the years since he died have been even more nightmarish, especially in his native Ireland. In a later generation Colin Carberry wrestles with similar demons, not only at home in Ireland but in the wide world. His poetry with its dark and bright imagery expresses a vision of that struggle in a distinctive voice, Irish in its eloquent music, yet with echoes of Canada, Mexico, and Rastafari Babylon. The settings may be purgatorial yet they're redeemed by the energy and order of the verse. The imaginative force is heightened by its containment within metrical verse, including sonnets and terza rima. Redemption, the longed-for ceasefire, is achieved by hope and love. These poems are profound and moving, the real thing, poetry such as we seldom find, both lucid and mysterious" -- Kildare Dobbs.

Colin Carberry is a poet and literary translator who was born in Toronto, raised in Lanesboro, Co. Longford, Ireland. He has travelled widely throughout the Caribbean and Central America and lived for a number of years in Mexico. He is the author of Ceasefire in Purgatory (Luna Publications) and The Green Table (Exile Editions); a limited-edition chapbook, The Crossing (Bearing Press); and he has translated two volumes of poetry, Weekly Diary and Poems in Prose and Adam and Eve (Exile Editions), from the Spanish of the great Mexican poet Jaime Sabines. He and his wife Veronica are co-organizers of the Toronto Small Press Group, and live in Toronto.