"The latest collection of poems by Anne Hartigan brings us daringly through the minefield avoided by less courageous writers who see Cliche written wherever Love appears. These poems are in the main about love, the fury, the pain, the passion, and the loss that goes with it. Anne Hartigan's voice is distinctive. She speaks as a lover who has borne children and has seen their children born. In this collection she celebrates sensuousness, lusty, treacherous, messy and inescapably human. Like the best poets, she brings us to new awareness with many unexpected images, "birds slicing the air". These are skilful and honest poems. They have their own particular music and move like the feet of a dancer, weaving in and out her themes of love failed, denied, lost, achieved. Few contemporary poets handle the themes of love and loss with such vigour and truthfulness." Maeve Kelly

This is Anne Le Marquand Hartigan's fourth collection of poetry. Two of her plays, Beds (1982) and La Corbiere (1989), were performed at the Dublin Theatre Festival. She is also a painter and writer of short fiction. Her last book, Now is a Moveable Feast (1991), combined her long poem, which has been performed several times, with her own drawings. She has won awards for her poetry and batik. This year she acted in her own one-woman show, and she recently completed a play, Jersey Lilies. She lives in Dublin, but spends time in the countryside of Ireland, and travelling.

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Other Salmon books by Anne Hartigan: Now is a Moveable Feast (Salmon Poetry, 1991) Nourishment (Salmon Poetry, 2005)