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Book SynopsisIn these wonderful poems, telling stories of the abuse of women long before the outcries of the current scandals, Patricia McCarthy ranges across cultures and religions, poetry, art and music, to dramatize the particulars of female lives she has known, both tragic and heroic.
Table of ContentsContents Prologue: Writer's Block 1 The Shiver 3 A Sisterhood 4 Rockabye grandfather 8 The Royal Kumari 10 A different kind of prison 12 Even with a flower 14 Depersonalised 16 Fairytale reversed 17 Fortune-Teller 18 Repatriation 20 Refuge 21 Dulce Domum 22 Dancing around her 24 Portrait: Red Indian 26 Jekyll and Hyde 27 The Lover 28 Prayer to Bacchus 29 His Say 30 D I Y Divorce 31 Restitution 34 Childless Woman 35 Odd One Out 36 Dirty Old Men of Dublin 38 Return of the Drag Queens 40 Ivy Leaves 42 Plaint to Epona 43 Old Retreat Notebook 45 Love Songs 47 Sonnets made of Wood 48 Love Letters 49 Homeward Bound 51Never without her 53 The Man who killed my Father 55 The Walking stick 57 Grey... and the poet 58 Piano Player 59 His Second Wife 60 All my long-gone horses 63 His mother 65 The Walk from Louisburgh to Delphi Lodge 67 From behind curtains 69 Stalker 71 Woman of an Age 72 Painted Lady 74 Philomel 76 Rock Horses 78 The angels keep 79 Rest, young lady 80 Sarola 82 Epilogue: When all is said and done 85 The Erl King's Shroud 87 Notes 102
