How the Bicycle Shone Paula Meehan the anthology challenges the extent

the anthology challenges the extent to which writing in Irish has been underrepresented in collections of modern and contemporary Irish poetry

frictional state

in their off-kilter and often painful encounter with childhood loss

like a painting"

Metaphysical and lyrical

How the Bicycle Shone Paula Meehan the anthology challenges the extentDenise Levertov described Allnutt's poems as 'at once hard and delicate, like wrought iron'. They are both serious and light in touch, deeply humane and spiritually profound, showing the spirit surviving amongst the tatters of Christianity in a modern wilderness. "How the Bicycle Shone" includes selections from her books "Spitting the Pips Out" (1981), "Beginning the Avocado" (1987), "Blackthorn" (1994) and "Nantucket and the Angel" (1997), as well as