Suite irlandesa

Since its first installment, the poetry of Antonio Rivero Taravillo has regularly cultivated the matter of Ireland, a country and a culture, including the Gaelic language, which is known like very few among us. It is the theme, the passion of a lifetime, on which the poems of this Suite revolve where the author has gathered some already known poems along with other new ones -the vast majority of the volume- in which he resumes his deep link with myths, the history, literature, music and art of the green Erín. Between the long opening poem, "Dublin", divided into thirty-six movements, and the one that closes, "Queen Maeve", both belonging to the unpublished series, the "Hiberniae" section contains dozens of compositions that alternate cultural references and his own experience, since his fascination with Ireland is inseparable from his itinerary. The landscape, the traditions, the Celtic substratum, thus appear linked to a personal approach that is to the geography of the island, traveled so many times, but also to the past of the old European nation. Verses, experimental sonnets, haikus or hexameters attest to the formal variety of the book and the technical skill of Rivero Taravillo, who inserts verses in Irish, English or even Galician in the Joycean manner. As if emerging from one of the peat fields that appear in the work of Seamus Heaney, the site where the poet excavates brings life intertwined with symbols and archetypes.