Sweeney as a Girl by Jaki McCarrick men dead and alive

dead and alive

Vona Groarke’s Selected Poems was praised as a ‘collection of almost sublime purity’ (Dublin Review of Books)

her use of form and rhyme is as light as it is enlightening as she probes our all-too-human nature and pays careful attention to the quiet marvels to be found by looking carefully at right where we happen to be

of their death and decay – all in and around the house of the writer

 Days of Gracespans over forty years of her poetic output

Sweeney as a Girl by Jaki McCarrick men dead and aliveBelonging and removal, a sense of place and a yearning for ones place in the scheme of things, these are among the core concerns and explorations of Irish fiction writer Jaki McCarrick in her accomplished debut collection of poems.