Elaine Feeney's work delves into the human experience with unsparing honesty. Her writing, spanning poetry and prose, is characterized by a raw, impactful diction and a piercing gaze into themes of family, loss, and the search for identity. Feeney masterfully weaves together past and present, unearthing profound emotional truths with an original and compelling sensitivity. Her literary voice is distinctive, resonating with readers who appreciate her ability to capture life's complexities in all their stark beauty.
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Sinéad Hynes is a tough, driven, funny young property developer with a terrifying secret.No-one knows not her fellow patients in a failing hospital, and certainly not her family. She has confided only in Google and a shiny magpie.But she can't go on like this, tirelessly trying to outstrip her past and in mortal fear of her future. Somehow, Sinéad needs to seize the moment, and maybe then she can learn to be free...
Poems from the author's experiences, including a messy divorce and special-needs teaching.
The third collection from one of Ireland's freshest and most engaging young female poets.
Elaine Feeney brings her poetry to Harvill Secker and Vintage with this powerful, personal, fierce collection about women's lives, bodies, battles and triumphs. From a searing meditation on the experience and aftershocks of a sexual assault - written as a series of unflinching cantos - to poems of love, place and new beginnings, Feeney's voice is strong and clear, challenging and confessional, rooted in her west coast of Ireland heritage while speaking to and with women everywhere.