Limerick's ‘poet-barbarian’ Tom turns tables on humans in book

CELEBRATED local poet and author Tom Moloney is back with a new book, which will be launched in his native Broadford next week.

To See at Last the Stars is a mock-heroic piece set on the border between West Limerick and North Cork.

It will be launched in Broadford’s community hall at 7.30pm on Thursday, November 21.

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The book turns the tables on the human race and instead gives voice to reynards, a term for foxes.

They have, according to the book, lived their lives accepting that humans are “the two-legged devils who inhabit the earth as if they own it.”

The time has come to change the order of things, and Tom’s book - his second fiction piece - explores how this takes place.

Tom, who for years ran Broadford’s only shop, describes himself as a “poet-barbarian knocking at the gates of the cannon.”

A well-known fixture at Limerick’s literary forums, he has published two collections of poetry, My Register and Killing Time.

Getting the Nod from Himself was his first venture into prose fiction.

All are welcome to attend the event in Broadford.

It will be compered by well-known podcaster Padraig Cronin.

Meanwhile, racounteur Sean Lyons will be on hand to formally launch Tom’s latest work.