IRISH TIMES: Geomantic review: poetry to the power of nine

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Paula Meehan, whose engaged and enlivening stint as the Ireland Chair of Poetry recently ended, has chosen an unusual nine-letter title for her new book. Geomantic (Dedalus, €12.50), the back-cover blurb tells us, refers to “a method of divination that interprets markings on the ground or the patterns formed by tossed handfuls of soil, rocks, or sand.”