Publisher: Scallta Media
Book Type: Poetry Collection
#Pages: 64
ISBN 13: 9780956371003 (1st Edition)
Other: NEW - Mint Condition


BETTY THOMPSON was born in Dublin. She holds an M.A. in English from University of Bristol, and an M.A. in Creative Writing from Bath Spa University. Previous publications include Coffee House Poetry, Envoi 142, The Scaldy Detail 2005, Crannog 16, The Scaldy Detail 2007 and The SHOp. She was shortlisted in the RTÉ Rattlebag/Dublin Writers Festival Poetry Competition in 2003, and was awarded 2nd Prize in the RTÉ Francis MacManus Short Story Competition in 2003. Her work has been broadcast on RTÉ Radio.

“Betty Thompson’s accomplished poetry exhibits a keen sense of the visual - here is a meditative awareness of shades of meaning as they are bodied forth in images of darkness, light, and her painterly palette of colours. Inspired by visual art, her aptly phrased poems create their own suggestive still-life tableaux: a sandbar ‘long and plump like a new grave’; Eleanor Roosevelt finding solace in a circle of holly bushes; the shine of a saucepan where cut lemons are simmering to soothe a friend’s cold.” - KATIE DONOVAN

“In Betty Thompson’s cool and luminous poems the poetic line and the line of life are impressively united. Her work is marked by a fine precision of language and a warm regard for our many-sided world. An impressive first collection.” - EAMONN WALL

“A poet with an acute awareness of the musical possibilities of language.” - KEVIN HIGGINS