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Katie Donovan May Swim (Paperback)
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- Book Title
- May Swim
- Publication Name
- May Swim
- Title
- May Swim
- ISBN-10
- 1780376863
- EAN
- 9781780376868
- ISBN
- 9781780376868
- Publisher
- Bloodaxe Books
- Format
- Uk-Trade Paper
- Release Year
- 2024
- Release Date
- 23/05/2024
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- GB
- Item Height
- 0.3 in
- Item Length
- 8.5 in
- Item Width
- 5.4 in
- Genre
- Poetry
- Publication Year
- 2024
- Topic
- Women Authors
- Item Weight
- 0.4 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 96 Pages
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By turns lyrical and sardonic, this new collection from Katie Donovan is characteristically watery - candid and uncompromising in its refusal to inhabit the safer reaches of the shore. Whether writing about her hybrid car, the death of whales from ingesting plastic waste, abortion now being legal in Ireland, or the increase in demand for sex dolls, Donovan's idiosyncratic range of tone and subject continues to enthral and engage the reader thirty years after her debut collection, Watermelon Man , arrived with its 'distinguished and open language' and 'bold statements of identity' (Eavan Boland). In this collection themes of loss, widowhood and ageing co-exist with observations of the poet's wild garden and its inhabitants, including a mangy fox she helps to survive. In some of these new poems the comforting delusion of rescue is highlighted as a flawed but human necessity, as in the case of Ishi, the last of his tribe 'saved to be / a living exhibit in a museum'. Other poems give voice to the remorse that is the haunting of a failed rescue. In 2017 Katie Donovan was awarded twenty-first O'Shaughnessy Award for Poetry 'for the intensity and conviction of her poetry, in recognition of the great range of both her craft and her subject matter, and in appreciation of her dedication to the witness and the vocation of the writer'.
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Publisher
Bloodaxe Books
ISBN-10
1780376863
ISBN-13
9781780376868
eBay Product ID (ePID)
17062377546
Product Key Features
Book Title
May Swim
Format
Uk-Trade Paper
Language
English
Topic
Women Authors
Publication Year
2024
Genre
Poetry
Number of Pages
96 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Height
0.3 in
Item Width
5.4 in
Item Weight
0.4 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Lc Classification Number
Pr6054.O58d6 2024
Reviews
From the reviews of Off Duty: 'Katie Donovan's new book, Off Duty, emerged out of the illness and premature death of her partner. Donovan records the devastating impact of that illness and loss on her relationships to her young children, her extended family and partner... If Donovan's subject is compelling, her style is more jagged: buttoned-down plainness coexists with tender, naively rendered details, alongside occasional shifts to a higher and more obviously poetic register. It is a tricky combination, but... it can be surprising and effective.' - John McAuliffe, The Irish Times 'Throughout the collection, Donovan's voice remains relatable, despite her extraordinary circumstance. She does not romanticise death, or the dying; nor does she make excuses for any ugliness she finds within herself. Yet in ascribing such a tapestry of thoughts and feelings to trauma, she is able to tenderly replicate her experience in all its contradictions; in both its darkness and its light. Off Duty is certainly an account of grieving, for the dead and the dying, but it's also a study of those who go on living, and who, in time, will thrive again.' - Julia O'Mahony, Dublin Review of Books 'The exact capturing of powerful and often contradictory emotions, thoughts and responses in language this vivid is extraordinarily affecting: a chronicle of almost impossible times, 'both a searing tragedy and a chainlink of domestic chores'.' - Frank Startup, The School Librarian
Table of Content
11 Deluge 12 Lost Song 13 Polar Switch 14 In a Perfect World 15 Arachne's Metamorphosis 17 Wings 19 Interruption 20 The Verge 21 Stories 22 Invasive 24 Foxed 30 Midsummer Rescue 33 Détente 35 Honeycomb 37 My Fluffy Valentine 38 Recycling 39 Murder 40 Shelter 42 Needle 43 The Three Who Were Lost 44 Baby Feet 45 Home to Vote 47 Let's Go 48 Two Women, One Grave 50 The Diggers 52 Beaming 54 Snowman 55 Archaeology 57 Portrait of the Mother as a Clay Teapot 59 Undertow 60 First Aid 62 Picnic in the ICU 63 The Dragon-printed Robe 65 Walk On By 66 Signs 67 Death and Taxes 68 Midlife Crisis 70 Salad Days 71 Spain 72 This Singular Horse 74 Berkeley 75 Olive Trees, Provence 77 Rome Project 78 Shapeshifting 80 May Swim, White Rock, 2020 81 Salvage 82 Marking Time, Dalkey 83 Catching Flies 84 Bailing 85 Divination 86 Sizing Up 87 Recess 88 Dancing Queens 90 The Seal 93 Notes 95 Acknowledgements
Copyright Date
2024
Dewey Decimal
821.914
Dewey Edition
23
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