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The Shark Nursery

  • ISBN-13: 9781800174146
  • Publisher: CARCANET PRESS
    Imprint: CARCANET PRESS
  • By Mary O'Malley
  • Price: AUD $27.99
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  • Availability: Book will be despatched upon release.
  • Local release date: 25/09/2024
  • Format: Paperback (216.00mm X 135.00mm) 96 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Poetry by individual poets [DCF]
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In Mary O'Malley's new collection, the world's at a precarious tipping point; trust in language is breaking down. The poet gives voices to the wolf, the seal and shark, finding new language against peril.
Mary O'Malley was born in Connemara and educated at University College Galway. She is a member of Aosdana and has received a Hennessey Award, the O'Shaugnessey Award. She reads and teaches in Universities throughout Europe and America, and in Ireland. She spends time in Paris and Spain and lives in the West of Ireland. She is deeply committed to education and the preservation of marine life and culture.
• New collection from a winner of the Éigse Michael Hartnett Poetry Award 2018, underpinned by her long history of environmental activism and education • Consists of three interlocking sections: poems directly arising from lockdown, those about lives lived in an online reality, and animal poems • The world’s at a precarious tipping point; trust in language is breaking down. The poet fuses the mythic with the modern and gives voices to the wolf, the seal and shark, finding new language against peril • Includes a poem commissioned by Poetry Ireland at the request of the State for a reading at a National Commemoration Ceremony to signal the end of lockdown in Ireland • Includes a sonnet that has been inscribed on stone and placed at the entrance to the Claddagh Basin and Galway Bay
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