Lies Anne Macaulay between the living stuff of

between the living stuff of the world: ‘the swabbed mystery of the connection/ between your body & the gross/ understatement of your environment’

His work is featured in anthologies

her tongue slopping free

Intimate moments carefully re-appraised (first dates

Here is a big book of many poems

Lies Anne Macaulay between the living stuff ofWhen does a poem tell the truth? When is it a lie? Intimate moments carefully re appraised (first dates, break ups, young parenthood, etc.) are the raw material of these vivid and wholly engaging poems, written in Irish, and translated here by the author a process that itself raises questions about poetry and truth. But the real achievement of N Ghrofas work is the way in which she keeps her personal history open to the wider world, to the imaginative