Afternoon Drinking in The Jolly Butchers is the debut collection from Galway-based poet Rachel Coventry. Beginning in East London, the collection makes its way back to Ireland and also moves from troubled youth to adulthood. Drawing on quantum mechanics, myth, religion and philosophy to fragment its perspective and to tell and retell its stories. It is at once bewitched yet bored, honest yet paradoxical. At its heart, it is a ...
Afternoon Drinking in The Jolly Butchers is the debut collection from Galway-based poet Rachel Coventry. Beginning in East London, the collection makes its way back to Ireland and also moves from troubled youth to adulthood. Drawing on quantum mechanics, myth, religion and philosophy to fragment its perspective and to tell and retell its stories. It is at once bewitched yet bored, honest yet paradoxical. At its heart, it is a meditation on relationship, interrogating memory, regret, and loss. The poems spin through various worlds and world views but come home, eventually, to the streets of Galway. A stunningly original and thoughtful voice is unveiled in this collection.
Rachel Coventry is a Galway-based poet and theorist. Her first collection Afternoon Drinking in the Jolly Butchers was published in 2018 by Salmon Poetry. Her poems have been published in many journals including The Rialto, The North, Stand, The Moth, The SHop, Poetry Ireland Review, and Abridged. She holds a doctorate in philosophy from The University of Galway. Bloomsbury will publish her monograph Heidegger and Poetry in the Digital Age: New Aesthetics and Technologies in 2023. Her second collection,The Detachable Heart, was published by Salmon in 2022.
