Standing in the Pizzicato Rain
Poems by GEORGINA EDDISON

A slim volume from the winner of the 2008 Listowel Writer's Week Poetry Competition

These poems like the pizzicato rain of their title are refreshing, musical and slightly strange. Georgina Eddison is joyfully serious about her themes: family, childhood, work, history, are captured in wonderfully warm, deft, light-filled poems. Her parents’ hilariously sparring marriage, her Aunt May dancing naked in her room at fifty in an English suburb, Mrs Sonnix on her way to the pawnshop – the people never stay still. But this poet is more than a lucky onlooker, and from children in their bedrooms like mermaids ‘singing, singing’, to Anna Freud, to imagined fish in a surreal ocean, she has an unshakeable grasp of her poetic art which reinvents them all in language and imagery that are deceptively simple, bright and strong. Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin

Georgina Eddison is a counsellor and psychotherapist. She lives in Kildare, Co. Wicklow. She has an M.Phil in Creative Writing from Trinity College, Dublin. She was the winner of the 2008 Listowel Writers’ Week Poetry Competition for the poems in this slim volume. She has also been shortlisted for a Hennessy Award and was awarded first prize in poetry at the Dunlavin Arts Festival 2003. Her poems have appeared in, among others, The SHOp, The Sunday Tribune, Cyphers, and Broadsheet. She has also published several short stories and is currently working on a novel.