The Blue Cocktail by Audrey Molloy Robert Macfarlane cuttlefish

cuttlefish

praise and lament

The poems collected in this anthology know sport

This book gathers four decades of writing

unfamiliar villages and cities

The Blue Cocktail by Audrey Molloy Robert Macfarlane cuttlefishAudrey Molloys collection, The Important Things, was shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize. Stephen Sextons citation noted, In this striking, moving, bold debut, Audrey Molloys poems move between Ireland and Australia, parenthood and daughterhood, and the sensual worlds of the body, its attendant desires and intensities. Beyond these essential forces, The Important Things, in all its formal elegance, is a book of grief too.