Liner Notes by Ciaran Berry James Harpur was twenty years in the

was twenty years in the making and written in Montreal

aware of the passing years

As a collaborative project

And is a book that blends delight and loss

with graceful

Liner Notes by Ciaran Berry James Harpur was twenty years in theFrom brief lyrics that examine a mixtape or a plectrum to larger meditations on the connections between the life of Robert Frost and a trip to the supermarket in the snow, the poems in Ciaran Berrys third collection consider questions of what it means to grow up somewhere and grow away from somewhere. His voice is by turns celebratory, elegiac, inquisitive and quietly humorous, as he conjures a past thats bric brac and hand me down. As these poems