The Road, Slowly

by Liz Quirke

Overview

A ground-breaking debut collection of love poems. With an assured voice, Quirke's poems weave through the experience of becoming a wife and mother in a collection of considerable lyrical beauty. Her poetry ploughs new thematic ground with confidence and subtle observations. Same-sex parenting in modern Ireland; non-biological motherhood and ways in which the past can inform the present are explored. Quirke celebrates the connection between parents and children within a non-nuclear family with scalpel sharpness and a discerning eye. Liz Quirke is a PhD researcher at NUI Galway.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781912561124
Publisher:	Salmon Poetry
Publication date:	12/21/2018
Pages:	84
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Liz Quirke is a writer and scholar from Co. Kerry. Salmon Poetry published her debut collection The Road, Slowly in 2018. She teaches on the MA in Writing at NUI Galway and is completing a practise-based PhD on Queer Kinship in Contemporary Poetry.

Table of Contents

Prologue

I Don't Write You Love Poems Anymore 11

Boluisce 12

Chapter 1 More than Bone and Flesh

Housework 15

Waiting Room 16

What Has My Body Done 18

Carving 19

Lucky 20

Newborn 21

Fall At 33 Weeks 22

The Painting 23

Nurture 24

Vacancy 25

Juno 26

Nocturne With Bathtime 27

Night Vision 28

In The Dead Of 29

The Shining Swell 30

Teeth 31

Sculpture 32

Chapter 2 All the Hidden Truths

Sentinel 35

Counterfeit 36

Reflection 37

Auto-Immune 38

Ri, Ro, Rem 39

Poison 42

Rite 43

Daedalus Speaks To Icarus, His Son 44

Salvage 45

Women Poets Teach Me How To Be A Woman 46

Four Parts Distinct 47

Where All The Light Can Gather 49

Romance 50

Portraits Of My Lover 51

Chapter 3 Water I Scoop with Netted Fingers

Nova 55

I See My Bones In No Other 59

In Silhouette, The Change Is Clear 60

We Settle Where Limbs Overlap 61

When Is The Rainbow, Momma? 62

A Record Of You 64

Seasons You Witness 65

Tn A Minute 68

Myth In The Kitchen 69

The Trees And The Breeze 70

These Nights 71

From You I Want 72

Spiddal Sonnet For She Who Loves Me 73

Epilogue

Say 77

The Road, Slowly 78

Notes 81

About the author 83