A wonderful volume of poetry exploring history - personal, familial and cultural. Though simple, these are poems which perfectly capture small moments, transcending place and time. This is a collection to be savoured, not rushed; with each reading, there is something new to be discovered. Winner of the Costa Poetry Award 2020 and sadly, the author's final work.
Now when darkness starts
in mid-afternoon,
when evening shows an unwelcome
half-sliced winter moon
I remember days
when I never thought twice about
what was farther off
from the four walls of our
house, from the hills
above it, from our infant daughters sleeping
in it or what lay
in wait for us on the Irish sea
From How We Were Transfigured
