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Articles by Aoife Lyall
A living artefact that records a very real present—Ghostgirl, by Annemarie Ní Churreáin - Books Ireland
by Aoife Lyall Ellen Orchard’s essay, ‘How Can a Poem Bear Witness?’, acknowledges the significant and complex position of the poet when it comes to writing about atrocities that are known to them but not experienced by them first-hand.
The Day Before - Books from Scotland
Aoife Lyall Aoife Lyall is an Irish poet living in the Scottish Highlands. Awarded an Emerging Scottish Writer residency by Cove Park in 2020 and twice shortlisted for the Hennessy New Irish Writing Awards, she was longlisted for the inaugural Rebecca Swift Foundation Women Poets’ Prize in 2018. Her debut collection Mother, Nature (Bloodaxe Books, 2021) was shortlisted for the Scottish First Book Award, one of Scotland’s National Book Awards 2021.
Seven Steeples, by Sara Baume-an aggregation of intimacies
All #irelandreads #jobfairy #StayAtHomeReadABook 1976 books 2019 40th Anniversary 45 Years A Beautiful Complexity A Book of Bones A Hut at the Edge of the Village a hut at the end of the village A Letter Marked Personal A provincial death A shock A.B. Jackson Abi Elphinstone Abigail Balfe academic reviews Accurate Measurements acquisitions Irish publishers Acquisitons Actress Adam Bentley Adam Hanna Adam Todd Adam White Adrian Duncan Adrian Duncan reads Adult Fiction After Repeal After the...
February 2021 | Bookanista
Runaways and free spirits “Every landscape needs a figure in it, perhaps especially a figure that is only intermittently visible, that is mysterious and alert,” observes a gardener in Jane Smiley’s The Strays of Paris who spies a beautiful racehorse roaming freely in the middle of the French capital. The racehorse is Paras (short for Perestroika). She became a... Bit by bit by bit What happened? Everyone asked the question, had been asking since the election.
Poetry | Bookanista
from Mother, Nature Aoife Lyall’s debut collection Mother, Nature explores the tragic and tender experiences of pregnancy and early motherhood, from antenatal complications and the devastating pain of miscarriage to the overwhelming joy of healthy delivery and healthy infancy. “Nothing prepares you for the loss of a child,” she writes in her prefatory note. “I turned to what... from Lumen How might poetry help us articulate the body in illness, in work, and in love?
from Mother, Nature
“In Aoife Lyall’s beautiful, intimate debut collection, poignant and heart-rending personal experience nestles beside profound love and hard-earned wisdom.” Helen Sedgwick Aoife Lyall’s debut collection Mother, Nature explores the tragic and tender experiences of pregnancy and early motherhood, from antenatal complications and the devastating pain of miscarriage to the overwhelming joy of healthy delivery and healthy infancy.
Poem Of The Day: Month's Mind by Aoife Lyall
Updated / Friday, 27 Mar 2020 11:53 We're delighted to present our Poem Of The Day, presented in association with Poetry Ireland. Today's featured poem is Month's Mind by Aoife Lyall - read it below. We don’t know which ones we’re meant to bring so we settle on the yellows for all the sorrys there are. We pick the smallest bunch. Full of buds, but no flowers, we lay them to rest in the river. Our slow footsteps mourning the dying shadows, we walk back to the house, together and alone.
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