Lies Anne Macaulay Here is a big book

Here is a big book of many poems

but only rarely do people in exile have the opportunity to speak for themselves

her tongue slopping free

Airborne (Salmon

His first two books Armchair Theatre (1999) and Desk with a View (2008) were both published by Hearing Eye

Lies Anne Macaulay Here is a big bookWhen does a poem tell the truth? When is it a lie? Intimate moments carefully re appraised (first dates, break ups, young parenthood, etc.) are the raw material of these vivid and wholly engaging poems, written in Irish, and translated here by the author a process that itself raises questions about poetry and truth. But the real achievement of N Ghrofas work is the way in which she keeps her personal history open to the wider world, to the imaginative