"These poems have lyric designs on the landscape. Trees and swans and weather make the background. Their colours and changes are deftly handled and then unexpectedly and subversively translated into a foreground of human feeling and human threat. This lyric mixture of real feeling and craftsmanlike grace makes the edges of these poems sharp and dangerous, and gives them the sort of music that reaches outwards and into memory." - Eavan Boland

About the Author

Catherine Phil MacCarthy was born in 1954 in Crecora, Co. Limerick. She took an honours degreen in English literature from University College, Cork, and completed postgraduate studies in drama at Trinity College, Dublin, and at the Central School of Speech and Drama, London. She works part time as a drama teacher as well as publishing regularly in magazines and newspapers. In 1991 she was joint winner of the Poetry Ireland / Co-operation North Sense of Place competition, anda selection of work by the two winning poets was published under the title How High the Moon. She has broadcast on RTE Radion 1 on Sunday Miscellany; was the 1990 winner of the National Women's Poetry Competition, and a prizewinner in th Patrick Kavanagh Awards, 1992.

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