{"product_id":"may-swim-9781780376868","title":"May Swim","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBy turns lyrical and sardonic, this new collection from Katie Donovan is characteristically watery - candid and uncompromising in its refusal to inhabit the safer reaches of the shore.\u003c\/b\u003e Whether writing about her hybrid car, the death of whales from ingesting plastic waste, abortion now being legal in Ireland, or the increase in demand for sex dolls, Donovan's idiosyncratic range of tone and subject continues to enthral and engage the reader thirty years after her debut collection, \u003ci\u003eWatermelon Man\u003c\/i\u003e, arrived with its 'distinguished and open language' and 'bold statements of identity' (Eavan Boland).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this collection themes of loss, widowhood and ageing co-exist with observations of the poet's wild garden and its inhabitants, including a mangy fox she helps to survive. In some of these new poems the comforting delusion of rescue is highlighted as a flawed but human necessity, as in the case of Ishi, the last of his tribe 'saved to be \/ a living exhibit in a museum'. Other poems give voice to the remorse that is the haunting of a failed rescue.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 2017 Katie Donovan was awarded twenty-first O'Shaughnessy Award for Poetry 'for the intensity and conviction of her poetry, in recognition of the great range of both her craft and her subject matter, and in appreciation of her dedication to the witness and the vocation of the writer'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloodaxe Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/06\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781780376868\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.30w x 0.40d","brand":"Katie Donovan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44589872185525,"sku":"9781780376868","price":15.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_7f134fc1-3b40-4425-ac56-15a05aa5eb73.jpg?v=1724733819","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/may-swim-9781780376868","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}