Rare and marvellous—A Crumpled Swan by David Collard - Books Ireland

Rare and marvellous—A Crumpled Swan by David Collard - Books Ireland

A cheerful guidebook, an idiosyncratic map, and an energetic paean—Nuala O’Connor on A Crumpled Swan, by David Collard (Sagging Meniscus Press) by Nuala O’Connor Ostensibly A Crumpled Swan is a book about a year’s worth of intensive, close reading of one poem – Abigail Parry’s ‘In the dream of the cold restaurant’ – but it is also chockful of personal reflection, wide-ranging literary insight, and chewy opinions. That these fifty short essays ab…