Votive by Keiran Goddard Keiran Goddard (“Plant Upbringing” was originally included

(“Plant Upbringing” was originally included in the volume Wall Painting

and charged with an unmistakable longing

 The English River is her first book-length poetry collection

and they respond to the way that sport in Ireland forms our alternative history

In this second anthology introducing contemporary Baltic poetry

Votive by Keiran Goddard Keiran Goddard (“Plant Upbringing” was originally includedTurning on the drawn out thread of a relationship in freefall, the poems in Votive, the skilful and seductive second collection by Keiran Goddard, are small prayers uttered out of an ambiguous faith. They are dreams, visions, and hallucinations; the body is made a bonsai tree, the sea hisses into the spaces between the lines, the voice speaks invocations to the minute. These poems are granular things that flow freely when touched. Unapologetically