Washing Windows Too
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A01=Eilis Ni Dhuibhne
A01=Helena Nolan
A01=Jackie Lynam
A01=Josepha Madigan
A01=June Caldwell
A01=Nandi Jola
A01=Nithy Kasa
A01=Rosemary Jenkinson
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- ISBN 9781851323111
- Format: Paperback
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 09 Mar 2022
- Publisher: Arlen House
- Publication City/Country: IE
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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The writers in Washing Windows Too have things on their minds that have exploded into that love-urgency that makes writers write. And, just as it should be, few subjects are off limits. A poet may not always love her inspirational material, but those here revere the act of writing so much - value it so much - that honing their ideas, visions, and insights into poem-shaped, concrete objects has become crucial. It is an honour to witness what has urged these writers to the process of thought, cogitation, sentence, and finally, poem.
Many writers use writing as an attempt to solve life's conundrums - to solve themselves. And to understand the self and others better, too, because writing is the best way they know to gain sight into, and survive, the vagaries of life. Perhaps the writers in this anthology are like me - maybe for them, too, writing is their sanity and their joy, their best thinking and settling tool. A poem can be a path into the deepest, purest self, and back out again - through the very act of writing - to a calmer, less frenetic place.
Because poets deal with issues that concern them - universal truths, often - certain themes emerge, as they do in all anthologies. In Washing Windows Too, particular groupings of motifs re-occur and these include birth and motherhood; child-love and empty nests; migration and refugees; women's power and agency; bodies, the male gaze, and violence; nature and its beauties; art, creation, and the act of writing itself; uneasy relationships; politics; health and illness; and grief and death. And, because we are living in the early twenty-twenties, the pandemic naturally features in some poems
Alan Hayes is editor and publisher of Arlen House, Ireland's longest established publisher specialising in equality and diversity.
Nuala O'Connor is a multi-award-winning novelist, short fiction writer and poet. Her current novel, Nora, is the One Dublin One Book choice for 2022.
