Maura Dooley crafts poetry that delves into the intimate textures of everyday life, transforming the mundane into the profound. Her work often explores the landscapes of memory, the complexities of human connection, and the delicate balance between our inner worlds and the external environment. Dooley's distinctive style is characterized by its precision and evocative imagery, drawing readers into the subtle nuances of lived experience. Her accessible yet resonant voice makes her a significant presence in contemporary poetry.
The Honey Gatherers takes its title from a phrase in Michael Ondaatje’s The Cinnamon Peeler, a poem which describesthe need to be marked, and marked out, by love. The search, the sweetness, the sting and the death of love, are allto be found in this anthology. schovat popis
Presents a comprehensive selection of poetry, including work for explaining magnetism and kissing a bone.
Features poems that take in the physical landscape, family and friendship, as well as the transience of both folklore and politics. This work, in part, is an attempt to speak of what is submerged, they welcome that 'splash of cold water to the face' that tells us we're alive.
An anthology of the best of new British and Irish women poets of the '90s. This is a perfect introduction to some of the fresh new voices coming out of Britain and Ireland. These thirty women all published their first books in this decade.
'Considering the Donkey Cart' Here is the horse and carriage of a modest household the means of escape on muddy days, drab days, days when to whisper into the tender ears that Midas wore, to tickle behind the teasing ears that Bottom desported was to know the thrill of the open gate, the bright road stretching away. Ah Jack! Ah Jenny! Ra chose you, Jesus chose you, Sancho chose you but who can coax your bony back, your stony look, uncomfortable, unbiddable, mired happily, enduring, eschewing the tasty barley, chewing a thistle, who can tempt you to carry the king with the golden crown or lift these sisters' spirits with a day in Town? "Her poems are themselves acts of displacement, turning around some event or emotion that cannot be fully named or known...an imagination which proliferates mysteries" - Jon Cook, Independent on Sunday
Dooley's first new collection since her Eliot-shortlisted Life Under Water (2008). Poems on looking in, looking out, looking through, on shifting light and what it reveals, reflects or conceals - and what remains.
Maura Dooley's poetry is renowned for embracing both lyricism and political consciousness, for its fusion of head and heart. Five Fifty-Five is a book of quizzical poems concerned with time and mortality which ask fundamental questions about our lives. It is her sixth collection, her first since The Silvering (2016).