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- Book Synopsis
- "Elaine Feeney is a poet for today-a bold, direct voice unafraid to speak to global politics past and present, to men, to Ireland, to the multi-edged experience of being woman, body, mother, daughter, worker. In Rise, Feeney unabashedly excavates personal and political trauma and experience with a frank tenderness and a mighty imagination, her signature scalpel-like lines boldly laying open the many-storied private worlds of the poet's mind. A poet of deep intelligence, who implicitly understands the interconnectedness of everything, in Rise Feeney graciously maps out those connections for us. Whether walking through Dublin or lying on an operating table, imagining herself a Degas dancer or arguing in a Belfast bar, Feeney's empathic and honest verse is both a documentation of and a transgressive counter-narrative to the accepted "norms" around her. Audacious, rhythmic, and brilliant, this collection is a triumph, con rming what many of us already know-that if anyone can open our eyes to the world, it's Elaine Feeney." Katie Raissian
- About The Author
- Elaine Feeney is an award-winning writer from Galway. Rise is her third full poetry collection following Where's Katie? (2010) and The Radio was Gospel (2014), all published by Salmon. She published her first chapbook, Indiscipline, with Maverick Press in 2007. Feeney's work is translated into over a dozen languages and is widely published. In 2016, Liz Roche Company commissioned Feeney to write for a national production to witness and record through dance, film and narrative, the physical experience of being a woman and bodily choice in Ireland. Entitled Wrongheaded, a film of the same name, directed by Mary Wycherley, accompanies the production. It premiered at Tiger Dublin Fringe Festival and is currently touring. Feeney has just finished both a pilot comedy series, The Fannypack, with writers Aoibheann McCann and Aoife Nic Fhearghusa, which was highly commended by BAFTA, and her first novel, SIC[K]. She intends to take a break now and perhaps keep bees or make furniture.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781910669839
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Salmon Poetry, (01 September 2017)
- Weight
- 150 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 198 x 215 x 19 mm
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