The Poison Glen by Annemarie Ní Churreáin

The Poison Glen by Annemarie Ní ChurreáinThe story of the stolen or missing child sits at the heart of The Poison Glen, alongside a desire to bear witness to family loss and cultures of silence in Ireland. Weaving together landscape, history, and the compelling mythology of a Donegal site known as The Poison Glen, here are poems of grit and burning, of wildness, grace and magic, of dreaming and compassion. The collection is rooted by The Foundling Crib, a poem that dwells on a long gone

Earthily humane and profoundly wise

A wondrous

But brave young women stand up for hope

and is indispensable for anyone interested in what actually happened 50 years ago' Colm Toibin

The Heeding paints a picture of a year caught in the grip of history

about a teenage outcast and the revenge she enacts on her classmates

intensely readable while always mindful of nuance and complexity - Empireland takes a perfectly-judged approach to its contentious but necessary subject' Jonathan Coe

Here too are vivid and less familiar stories by Chiamaka Enyi-Amadi

It chronicles David Copperfield's extraordinary journey through life

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*WINNER OF THE BBC NATIONAL SHORT STORY AWARD 2020*

increasingly centred on the north-eastern Protestant community