From a Broken Rib / Dunha Costela Rota' by Annemarie Ní Churreáin

From a Broken Rib / Dunha Costela Rota' by Annemarie Ní ChurreáinIn this book you'll find poems that bear witness to the lives of women and children in Ireland under the founding of the new Irish State. As noted by editor Keith Payne, ' These poems are where wounded women get to speak in a bare tongue, something theyve never been given the chance to do before. And when we know there are women and children who live in a wide open where not a single thing grows, it is our duty to act to the best of our abilities, and

It is a wry and tender study of romantic possibility

she collapsed and underwent six hours of brain surgery at UCLA Medical Centre to relieve a massive hematoma

to the spy games and dirty schemes of the British Army

Here too are some of her LRB diaries

Anyone who chooses can look beyond their own reflection and find the marvellous there

you will see books and words being given

In the rugged Pacific Northwest of the United States lies the Olympic National Forest - a vast expanse of impenetrable darkness and impossible beauty

This prescient contemporary history provides a timely reminder that we live in a world that is profoundly interconnected

metallic edges

Over the decades

Ireland is at war

WINNER OF THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2021SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD