Obverse Observations

Obverse Observations is a collection of poetry which links past, present, and future. Drawing inspiration from both the Modernists and Surrealists of the 20th century and the earlier movements of Romanticism and the English Renaissance, this collection elevates and examines timeless topics like theology, linguistics, dreams, and time itself, turning them over like coins.

In his first formal collection, Tadhg Wallace presents a tour de force of strange reveries, and inverse insights. Ranging in scope from deserts at the end of time to the dreams of ancient people, these poems make up a labyrinthine work which through vivid and concise language seeks to encompass the human condition, moving through fantasy, despondence, and faithful resolution. The whole work is in effect an upheaval, seeking to regain the stylistic purity and grandeur of the past which has fallen out of fashion, while remaining thematically pertinent to the present and future.

Tadhg Wallace is a rising young writer and scholar, having been published in journals like Peculiar Mormyrid and awarded the Rin Kelly Scholarship in Poetry. He writes in both prose and poetry, fiction and non-fiction, having published essays on topics ranging from Semiotics and Art History to Theology and Philosophy. He also has a keen interest in the history and preservation of opera and medieval to early-modern English literature, having translated several works out of Middle English. Following the Imagist maxim of "Make It New", he has sought through all of his work to push the boundaries of form and language, all in service to the furtherment of mankind, aiming for all of his work to have ultimately positive messages.