Lies Anne Macaulay but only rarely do people

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

Leah Fritz was born in New York

between the living stuff of the world: ‘the swabbed mystery of the connection/ between your body & the gross/ understatement of your environment’

Founded in 1985

Airborne (Salmon

Lies Anne Macaulay but only rarely do peopleWhen 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