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Publisher: The Works Poetry
Book Type: Poetry Collection
#Pages: 60
ISBN 13: 9781872801148 (First Printing)
Other: NEW - Mint Condition
Mary O'Brien spent her childhood in Kilmuckridge and now lives in Wexford town with her husband, John. Her poetry has featured in the Women's Work Series of anthologies published by THE WORKS, and local publications such as The Scaldy Detail. In 2003 she was awarded a Wexford Co. Council Arts Bursary for Literature.
Contents:
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Downstrokes
Herring
Herds and Heros
Evening Primrose
The Sunny South East
Pick Shoes
A Clean Sweep
The Pattern
Footprints
September
Birches
Of Small Things
Mantilla
A God on John Street
Oystercatchers
Mother Tongue
The Ointment
The Dairy
Asylum
The Bird in the Bush
Sightings
Watering
Where a Fish Might Jump
A Mummer's Dream
Millennium Rites
The Chestnut Tree
Still Light
Tasty Work
The Tea Sun
Through the Raven
Swallows at the North Slob
Terminal
The Hook
Christmas Cactus
The Visit
Ladyfingers
Slow Readers
Coolgreany
The Light from Tusker
Mary has published two previous collections or poetry, The Iris and the Marigold (2001) and Cutting the Lake (Rectory Press 2005).
The writing of the work for Dicing with the Tide was supported by Wexford Co. Council's Per Cent for Art Programme. Mary works part-time in Primary Education and was recently awarded an M.A. from Milltown Institute, Dublin.
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