Katie Donovan is a leading Irish poet. "Rootling" draws on three previous Bloodaxe collections, "Watermelon Man" (1993), "Entering the Mare" (1997) and "Day of the Dead" (2002), together with a whole collection of new work.
This powerful collection combines Katie Donovan's unflinching insight into our human foibles with her exceptional descriptive gift. The years of her husband's throat cancer are charted in poems by turns tender, harsh and darkly humorous.
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. Themes... Læs mere
A rich treasury of writing by and about Ireland's women.