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The debut collection from Skerries, Co. Dublin based winner of the 2006 Patrick Kavanagh Award, Enda Coyle-Greene’s Snow Negatives is an exciting volume from a poet whose work is already well known from literary magazines and journals. In poems that are at once formally alert and alive to the possibilities of new departure, Coyle-Greene records outward journeys and experiences, but always measured against a time when “the slow ash of innocence clung / to the cigarettes we smoked / behind the bicycle sheds” (‘Witches’), and, increasingly, the awareness of mortality and the “eerily familiar” recognitions occasioned by merely going home.