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GALWAY LAUNCH – MENAGERIE
Book launch for Menagerie, 16th May, 6pm: Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop in Galway City. Joint launch for Menagerie & Washing Windows V both from Arlen House Celebrating Arlen House at 50
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Menagerie review
I’m grateful to Canadian writer Rob McLennan, who has reviewed Menagerie at his blog. A taster:’…a curious assemblage of prose poem narratives and short scenes that hold a thickness of detail and a lush sense of the lyric…These poems are quite magical, honestly.’ You can read the rest here.
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Irish Times Review – Menagerie
Happy International Women’s Day! I’m very happy today to get this review of Menagerie in the Irish Times. Thanks, Carl Phillips. A snippet: ‘…a warm feelingful generosity of vision and a distant, diagnostic eye…a collection which is at once involving and clear-sighted.’ Pre-order the book here.
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MENAGERIE – PRE-ORDER
Pre-order *Menagerie* HERE from Books Upstairs. My new poetry collection Menagerie is out 31st March from Arlen House. Here’s what poet Patrick Chapman has to say about it: ‘Celebrated as a novelist with a lyrical style, Nuala O’Connor has always been a quietly showstopping poet as well. In Menagerie, we are struck by the compassion…