Wading into the Light by Mel McEvoy Friedrich Holderlin Sophie Mayer

Sophie Mayer

But a great deal of the power of Ní Ghríofa’s work comes from the way her personal history links her to the wider world – to the imaginative encounters that prompt so many of the poems

Jessica Reidy

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Wading into the Light by Mel McEvoy Friedrich Holderlin Sophie MayerMany of these poems resonate with a sense of loss, not morbidly so, but almost as a contradiction where our emptiness can make us capable of compassion. The background music, or the place of origin for this work is always the narrative of emotion. The centrepiece of this collection is a sequence of poems called Sonnets of a Hospital Lift, telling the story of death and dying in a NHS hospital. We write to catch meaning, to shine light on this