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midwinter

£15.99

Brugh, Brú, Bro, Broe, Brow, Sí an Bhrú, Brú na Bóinne, Newgrange; Cnogba, Cnoc Búa, Chnó-guba, Knowth; the Boyne Cable Bridge, the Mary McAleese Bridge, the M1 Bridge. Different names for the same place, different meanings for the same sound. In midwinter Susan Connolly explores her home landscape in visual poetry using the typewriter, a letter stamp set and handwriting as a means of expression. Her collection includes 'The Orchard Keeper', her lyric sequence about the Co. Meath war-poet Francis Ledwidge.

This publication is supported by the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon and the Shared Island Civic Society Fund, managed by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade of the Government of Ireland.

Please note: This is a pre-order. You will recieve your copy of the book upon publication

Note: This purchase is of the individual book described above. If you have already become a Subscriber or Supporter of Macha Press, you have purchased this title and should not complete this order unless you would like an additional individual copy of the book.

Brugh, Brú, Bro, Broe, Brow, Sí an Bhrú, Brú na Bóinne, Newgrange; Cnogba, Cnoc Búa, Chnó-guba, Knowth; the Boyne Cable Bridge, the Mary McAleese Bridge, the M1 Bridge. Different names for the same place, different meanings for the same sound. In midwinter Susan Connolly explores her home landscape in visual poetry using the typewriter, a letter stamp set and handwriting as a means of expression. Her collection includes 'The Orchard Keeper', her lyric sequence about the Co. Meath war-poet Francis Ledwidge.

This publication is supported by the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon and the Shared Island Civic Society Fund, managed by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade of the Government of Ireland.

Please note: This is a pre-order. You will recieve your copy of the book upon publication

Note: This purchase is of the individual book described above. If you have already become a Subscriber or Supporter of Macha Press, you have purchased this title and should not complete this order unless you would like an additional individual copy of the book.

About the Author:

Susan Connolly was born in Drogheda, Co. Louth where she still lives. She has published three full-length collections of poetry: For the Stranger (Dedalus Press, 1993), Forest Music (Shearsman Books, 2009) and Bridge of the Ford (Shearsman Books, 2016). She was awarded the Patrick and Katherine Kavanagh Fellowship in Poetry in 2001. In the same year she received a Publications Grant from the Heritage Council of Ireland for A Salmon in the Pool, a literary and place-names map of the river Boyne from source to sea.

Her poems have been published in journals and online in Ireland, the UK, Canada and Australia and are included in The Field Day Anthology: vol IV, Voices and Poetry of Ireland and Windharp: Poems of Ireland since 1916. Some of her work has been broadcast on The Poetry Programme on RTE Radio 1. Bridge of the Ford (2016), a collection of visual poetry, is her tribute to Drogheda. Redfoxpress published What Noise on Earth in 2019 and in 2022 her artist’s book Looking Across the River. Her poetry was exhibited at the Museum of Literature Ireland, Dublin in 2024 as part of the exhibition Is this a poem? 

In 2024, she was awarded an Agility Award from the Arts Council of Ireland in to make POEM, a handwritten poetry map of the river Boyne from Newgrange to the sea using texts from writers who in their poetry have celebrated the Boyne. POEM takes the form of a concertina book over 3 metres long.  Her books have been displayed and sold at Dublin Art Book Fair and at Drogheda Zine Fair. 

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