Description: May Swim, Paperback by Donovan, Katie, ISBN 1780376863, ISBN-13 9781780376868, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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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Book Title: May Swim
Number of Pages: 96 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
Topic: Women Authors, Subjects & Themes / Family, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Item Height: 0.3 in
Publication Year: 2024
Genre: Poetry
Item Weight: 5.6 Oz
Author: Katie Donovan
Item Length: 8.5 in
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Uk-Trade Paper
