Heather Island

In this, her fourth collection, Joan McBreen interrogates loss and completes a tentative journey of renewal. A quiet strength sustains the consistently elegiac mood of "Heather Island".

This poet of autumn and diminishing light revisits the shapes and colours of Tully lake and mountain in Connemara, the 'browning bracken' and 'the late blackberries'.

But McBreen also travels far beyond the comfort of the familiar, to South America, to Borges and Neruda, to the mysteries of passing time and death.

There is a serenity and sense of liberation, in her poems of acceptance, of 'souls set free/wheeling in the wind/unhurried/in a vast sky/beyond sound'.

Publication - Spring 2009

Publications

• The Watchful Heart - A New Generation of Irish Poets - Poems and Essays
  The Watchful Heart - A New Generation of Irish Poets
  
  
• Heather Island
  Heather Island
  by Joan McBreen
  
  
  
• Winter In The Eye
  Winter In The Eye
  New & Selected Poems by Joan McBreen
  
  
• The White Page
  The White Page
  Twentieth Century Irish Women Poets
  
  
• A Walled Garden In Moylough
  A Walled Garden In Moylough
  Poems by Joan McBreen
  
  
• The Wind Beyond the Wall
  The Wind Beyond the Wall
  Poems by Joan McBreen

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