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Dodder Daughter
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- Book Synopsis
- *They say when you turn sixtyyou become invisible.Try sixty millenniaof rising, trickling,flowing, spurting,curving bank sides*Turning sixty and recovering from major surgery in the spring of 2024, Nessa O'Mahony returned to her beloved local river, the Dodder. As healing progressed, O'Mahony's fascination for the river grew and she conceived of a plan, not only to map out its trajectory from source to sea, but to imagine a voice and personality for the river that has curved through south Dublin for millennia. That ambition grew into a wider exploration of the feminine in all its cycles, seen through the shifting dynamics of mother-daughter relationships and the wider landscape, and a growing sense of what is encroaching, what is at stake and what may be lost. The resulting poems brim with humane feeling, but also with a sardonic quiet wit that makes such moments clearly hard won.
- About The Author
- Nessa O'Mahony was born in Dublin and lives in Rathfarnham where she works as a freelance teacher and writer of poetry and fiction. She was awarded an Arts Council of Ireland literature bursary in 2004, 2011 and 2018, a Simba Gill Fellowship in 2005 and an artists' bursary from South Dublin County Council in 2007. She has published four volumes of poetry, edited and co-edited anthologies and has co-edited a book of criticism on the work of Eavan Boland. She also writes crime fiction. She presents The Attic Sessions, a literary podcast, which she produces with her husband, Peter Salisbury.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781915022936
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Salmon Poetry, (30 May 2026)
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 228 x 152 mm
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