The Woman Who Was Not There David Douglas but the war and then

but the war and then the death of his father forced him to leave without completing his degree

editor and literary critic

Corless takes the low road and shines the telltale torchlight of his killer wit into all the most embarrassing areas of contemporary Irish life

Her cast of eccentric characters live somewhere on the coast of Greeneland

• Elena Shvarts

The Woman Who Was Not There David Douglas but the war and thenThis is a book of dangerous poetry. It is a book that should not be left unsupervised or with the cover left open while you sleep. Inside are tales of women who eat themselves, mothers who collect clouds in small bottles, children who live beneath beds, poets who stand on top of tower blocks and girls who find wings and fly across a landscape of abandoned council estates, the ghosts of gangs spraying graffiti poetry. It is a book about beauty in ugly