Declan Ryan   Richie McCaffery’s third collection, Summer/Break (Shoestring, 2022), is one of quiet peril. Everywhere one looks there is a quest, however forlorn, for salvation, a desperation and sense of shipwreck, belied by – or at least running counter to – the poet’s formal and syntactical control. In apparently calm, usually conversational…

    Declan Ryan   “A shipwreck becomes a way of seeing things”, Douglas Crase writes in ‘Saggaponnack’, and a sense of the dredging up of what’s been lost occurs throughout his own, ‘recovered’, work. Crase’s first collection, The Revisionist, was published in 1981, and greeted with the sort of notices Emerson once termed a…