The Ship of Birth: Poems

The Ship of Birth records a father’s responses in the time immediately be­fore and after the birth of his child. Just as material significant to the dead is placed in a ship of death, so this ship of birth contains what is signifi­cant to the child: the wonder and trepidation of the parents, reflections on the nature of the soul, thoughts on the future growth of the child. Greg Delanty’s poems draw on his experiences in American and Irish cultures, using the traditional verse structures of ...