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By: Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
Publisher: The Gallery Press
Published: October 2019
Pages: 72
Categories: Literature
Available as: Hardback, Paperback
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ISBN-13: 9781911337720
ASIN: 1911337726

Poems in The Mother House range from the broad, surprising narrative swerve of ‘She Was at the Haymaking’ and the mysterious wound in ‘A Journey’ to the exact detail of ‘the vessels tugging at their tether’ and the lighthouse keeper ‘watching the great revolving spokes / hitting the piled castles of spray’. Stories of historical figures (including the author’s relations) are filtered through tellings. Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin’s meticulous, probing art is like no other. As she writes in ‘Resemblances’, ‘Like everything that I deal with now the room / has a double, a frill of light surrounding it.’

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