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The Day Before
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Focusing on the earliest weeks and months of the pandemic, Aoife Lyall's The Day Before beautifully captures the ordinary moments in life that crystallise in the face of crisis and threat. These intimate and meticulous poems mark the lived experience of someone who must navigate a...
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Aoife Lyall’s second collection follows her widely praised debut Mother, Nature. Her book beautifully captures ordinary moments in life that crystallise in the face of crisis and threat, focusing on the earliest weeks and months of the pandemic, exploring first steps, last breaths, milestones, millstones and the world behind the front door.
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Description
Focusing on the earliest weeks and months of the pandemic, Aoife Lyall's The Day Before beautifully captures the ordinary moments in life that crystallise in the face of crisis and threat.
These intimate and meticulous poems mark the lived experience of someone who must navigate a world she no longer understands, exploring first steps and last breaths, milestones, millstones, emigration, fly-tipping, and the entire world to be found in the space behind the front door.
Tender, challenging, and historically significant, The Day Before asks what it means when home is the one place you cannot leave, and the one place you cannot go.
Book Details
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ISBN: 9781780376905
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 22 February 2024
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Edition: Paperback original
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 7.0mm
Width: 156.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 64
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About the Author
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. She has worked as a guest curator for the Scottish Poetry Library and as a guest editor for Butcher's Dog.
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