The Road, Slowly
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‘The Road, Slowly’ is the ground-breaking debut collection of love poems from award-winning Irish poet, Liz Quirke. With an assured voice, her poems weave through the experience of becoming a wife and mother in a collection of considerable lyrical beauty. Her poetry ploughs new thematic ground with confidence and subtle, delicate observations. Same-sex parenting in modern Ireland; non-biological motherhood and ways in which the past can inform the present are explored with courage. Quirke celebrates the connection between parents and children within a non-nuclear family with scalpel sharpness and a discerning eye. Her poems pay tribute to the achievement of family.
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The Road, Slowly is the ground-breaking debut collection of love poems from award-winning Irish poet, Liz Quirke. With an assured voice, her poems weave through the experience of becoming a wife and mother in a collection of considerable lyrical beauty. Her poetry ploughs new thematic ground with confidence and subtle, delicate observations. Same-sex parenting in modern Ireland; non-biological motherhood and ways in which the past can inform the present are explored with courage. Quirke celebrates the connection between parents and children within a non-nuclear family with scalpel sharpness and a discerning eye. Her poems pay tribute to the achievement of family.
"These poems are full of force and mystery, a moving study of the ways in which we mother and in which we love" - Leanne O'Sullivan
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| Weight | 120 g |
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| Dimensions | 19.8 × 21.6 × 0.5 cm |
| Book_author | Quirke, Liz |
| Publisher | Salmon Poetry |
| Imprint | Salmon Poetry |
| Cover | Paperback |
| Pages | 83 |
| Language | English |
| Dewey | 821.92 (edition:23) |
| Readership | General – Trade / Code: K |
