A ghost in the throat
In the eighteenth century, on discovering her husband has been murdered, an Irish noblewoman drinks handfuls of his blood and composes an extraordinary lament that reaches across centuries to the young Doireann Ní Ghríofa, whose fascination with it is later rekindled when she narrowly avoids fatal...
| Main Author: | Ní Ghríofa, Doireann (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Windsor, Ontario :
Biblioasis,
[2020]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- A female text
- A liquid echo
- To breathe elsewhere
- In the milking parlour
- An unscientific mishmash
- The dissection room
- Cold lips to cold lips
- Oubliette
- Blood in mud
- Two roads, each blurred
- Blot. Blot.
- Omen
- of planes and starlings
- To splinter the surface
- Now, then
- A sequence of shadows
- Wild bees and their fizzy curiosities
- How blurred the furze
- Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire/The keen for /Art Ó Laoghaire.