Breaking Apple

Drawing on the author's experiences of the war in Northern Ireland, when the constant presence of death meant that life could never be fully lived, and weaving a dark beauty that is poignant but never mawkish, these poems examine the concept of home: a place yearned for but which shifts about us with the passage of time but which, nevertheless, offers boundless possibility. This is poetry with a filmic quality, aware that the camera, like memory, can deceive as easily as illuminate.