Clasp - Doireann Ní Ghríofa

Clasp is award-winning Irish poet Doireann Ní Ghríofa's first English-language collection of poems. In three sections entitled 'Clasp', 'Cleave' and 'Clench', Ní Ghríofa engages in a strikingly physical way with the world of her subject matter. The result is by times what one poem calls 'A History in Hearts', among other things an intimate exploration of love, childbirth and motherhood, and simultaneously a place of separation and anxiety. In one poem set in the boys' home in Letterfrack, a place... Zobrazit více