{"product_id":"may-swim-paperback","title":"May Swim - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKatie Donovan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBy 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.\u003c\/b\u003e Whether writing about her hybrid car, the death of whales from ingesting plastic waste, abortion now being legal in Ireland, or the increase in demand for sex dolls, Donovan's idiosyncratic range of tone and subject continues to enthral and engage the reader thirty years after her debut collection, \u003ci\u003eWatermelon Man\u003c\/i\u003e, arrived with its 'distinguished and open language' and 'bold statements of identity' (Eavan Boland).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this collection themes of loss, widowhood and ageing co-exist with observations of the poet's wild garden and its inhabitants, including a mangy fox she helps to survive. In some of these new poems the comforting delusion of rescue is highlighted as a flawed but human necessity, as in the case of Ishi, the last of his tribe 'saved to be \/ a living exhibit in a museum'. Other poems give voice to the remorse that is the haunting of a failed rescue.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 2017 Katie Donovan was awarded twenty-first O'Shaughnessy Award for Poetry 'for the intensity and conviction of her poetry, in recognition of the great range of both her craft and her subject matter, and in appreciation of her dedication to the witness and the vocation of the writer'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKatie Donovan\u003c\/b\u003e was educated at Trinity College Dublin and the University of California at Berkeley. She has published five books of poetry, all with Bloodaxe Books: \u003cem\u003eWatermelon Man\u003c\/em\u003e (1993), \u003cem\u003eEntering the Mare\u003c\/em\u003e (1997), \u003cem\u003eDay of the Dead\u003c\/em\u003e (2002), \u003cem\u003eRootling: New \u0026amp; Selected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e (2010), and \u003cem\u003eOff Duty\u003c\/em\u003e (2016), which was shortlisted for the\u003cem\u003e Irish Times\u003c\/em\u003e-Poetry Now Award. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eIrish Women Writers: Marginalised by Whom?\u003c\/em\u003e (Raven Arts Press, 1988), and has co-edited two anthologies, \u003cem\u003eDublines\u003c\/em\u003e (with Brendan Kennelly), published by Bloodaxe Books in 1996, and \u003cem\u003eIreland's Women: Writings Past and Present\u003c\/em\u003e (with A. Norman Jeffares and Brendan Kennelly), published by Kyle Cathie (Britain) and Gill and Macmillan (Ireland) in 1994. In 2017 she was awarded the 21st Lawrence O'Shaughnessy Award for Poetry. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.3 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 06, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42695287046207,"sku":"9781780376868","price":21.54,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/f682a6d567d8a0154793b92b7998155c.webp?v=1765003268","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/may-swim-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}