The Solace of Artemis by Paula Meehan Derek Mahon Yet this collection never settles

Yet this collection never settles into being ‘about’ identity or contemporary culture

It is also transport: writing a way out and through

Adnan explores the exhausting struggle for acceptance after being forced into exile

Harrison bring us meditations on whale hunts and lost children

And throughout this selection we encounter a poet engaged with the question of national identity

The Solace of Artemis by Paula Meehan Derek Mahon Yet this collection never settlesPatterns and patterning cellular, celestial, social, political and personal spin and weave through Paula Meehans new collection of poems. From the mythic to the mundane, her attention is given over to the examination of interconnected lives her own, the lives of her family, the human ecology of her native Dublin. As well as a decades worth of new poems, The Solace of Artemis and integrates her sequence Museum (2019), commissioned for the Dublin