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DIES IST EIN WEIBLICHER TEXT ZWEI SCHRIFTSTELLERINNEN, Jahrhunderte voneinander getrennt: In ihrem ungewöhnlichen Prosadebüt verbindet Doireann Ní Ghríofa Essay und Autofiktion, um das Innenleben und die tiefe Verbundenheit zwischen zwei schreibenden Frauen aus zwei verschiedenen Epochen zu erkunden. Es ist eine Feier des Lebens, der Liebe und des rechten Umgangs mit Leiden. Im 18. Jahrhundert trinkt eine irische Adelige, als sie erfährt, das...

A true original. In this stunningly unusual prose debut, Doireann Ni Ghriofa sculpts essay and autofiction to explore inner life and the deep connection felt between two writers centuries apart. In the 1700s, an Irish noblewoman, on discovering her husband has been murdered, drinks handfuls of his blood and composes an extraordinary poem. In the present day, a young mother narrowly avoids tragedy. On encountering the poem, she becomes obsessed...

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Do our passions control us or us them? These poems find themselves asking such questions in hospitals, in cellars, in Parisian parks and American laundromats, inside our screens and beyond them. Poems of blood and birdsong, of rain and desire, of aftermath and ambivalence, each spoken by a voice, which - like the starlings - sings, at once, both past and present."Looking into the dark sky of history, Doireann Ní Ghríofa calls up an illuminatin...

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An Post Irish Book Awards Nonfiction Book of the Year . A Guardian Best Book of 2020 . Shortlisted for the 2021 Rathbones Folio Prize . Longlisted for the 2021 Republic of Consciousness Prize When we first met, I was a child, and she had been dead for centuries. I am eleven, a dark-haired child given to staring out window ... Her voice makes it 1773, a fine day in May, and puts English soldiers crouching in ambush, I add ditch-water to drench ...

A fluid hybrid of essay and autofiction to explore the ways in which a life can be changed in response to the discovery of another's - in this case, Eibhli n Dubh Ni Chonaill's Caoineadh Airt Ui Laoghaire, famously referred to by Peter Levi as `the greatest poem written in either Ireland or Britain during the eighteenth century.

Irish poet Doireann Ní Ghríofa's selection from his first three Irish-langauge poetry books, translated into English by the author and published here in dual-language format

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