Falling Apples

Falling Apples will delight and inspire. On a wide canvas it depicts a panorama of experiences, scenes, nature and events. The collection takes us on a whirlwind journey from the author's native Galway, to Thailand, to New Zealand, to his home in Listowel and many places in between. Matt Mooney's second collection of poetry 'Falling Apples' will delight and inspire. On a wide canvas he depicts a panorama of experiences, scenes, nature and events. The collection takes us on a whirlwind journey from his native Galway, to Thailand, to New Zealand, to his home in Listowel and many places in between. The poems have an immediacy and tenderness in the observation of nature.

Table of Contents:
Falling Apples Diversion This is your Captain speaking Overheard Carnival Lake Te Anau Siesta Skylight to the Stars Thistledown Alluring Outside Solitude Alone Stepping Away Swan Delight Where Hemispheres Meet Oasis Soft Trap Sound Effects Her Apollo Our Laughing Cavalier River Fields The Ballad of Bryan McMahon The Glass Blower The Signalman Tom Moon Village Lady Red Orange Juice Bilbao Interlude Cois Laoi Alive by the Lee St. Malo Maid Tunes Waltzing at the Fleadh Carpenter's Son Eyes of the Glen A Boy on his Bike Seats in the Sun Totus Tuus-Totally Yours Aux Anges Over the Moon Red Deer An Eye on London Before the Bombing Bleeding Bono and Bob Canned Deadlines Imagine If The Silencer By the Pond Montmartre Early Train Head of the Clan Late Night Taxi Morning Star Pumpkin Soup Badgers in the Wood Cat on the Street Fall of the Fledgling Like an Alien Rustic Fellow Barefoot Snakes Alive Coming from the Casbah Cuchulainn's Sons Exit 9 From the Prom New Roads Sunday Shoes Cornfields Embrace Heron Ceist agam Orm I Ask Myself Lambs Land of the Leachtans Landing Place Tailback Meeting Wordsworth Wild Strawberries Aux Pied de La Croix Medugorje East to Latvia Hurling Hero Inferno Sunday Morning Unknown Vigil The Hand of Man Daydream The Romanian In Transit Always Eighteen

About the Author :
Matt Mooney was born in South Galway. He is a graduate of UCG and of UCC and he has worked as a teacher and a guidance counsellor in Listowel in North Kerry. Married to Mary, they have three daughters Anne, Meabh and Siobhan. It was in UCG in the early sixties, in a climate where poetry was thriving, that he began to paddle in poetic waters. Later in Listowel he was led to Mount Olympus by poets like Gabriel Fitzmaurice and Michael Hartnett. His first collection Droving was launched at Writers' Week 2003. He has read poems on radio, at Baffle in Loughrea and at the West Cork Literary Festival. He has been published in The Connaught Tribune, West 47 and in Feasta. Falling Apples (2010) is the title of his second collection. Its variety of themes and interpretations of natural phenomena will interest a wide range of readers. The belief of the poet is that reality is awesome and that gold dust can be found where you would least expect it.

Review :
A meaningful and challenging collectionA" Fred Johnston Matt Mooney's second collection of poetry 'Falling Apples' will delight and inspireA" Madeleine O' Sullivan