New book brings together poems and photographs from West Cork and Kerry

"A POEM is always aware, for me, of what’s happening around it.”

Australian poet John Kinsella has most recently tested his poems’ awareness in a new collaboration with photographer and fellow West Cork blow-in John D’Alton for their book, A Shared Wonder of Light.

A collection of poems and photographs from West Cork and Kerry, the book pays homage to the loughs, bays and passes of the region, and a shared passion for the landscape and its history imbues the work of both men. But the collaboration came about with an encounter at the school gates where D’Alton and Kinsella’s sons are classmates. Originally, they agreed to work on an exhibition but the project evolved into a book.