Monsoon Diary by Joseph Woods Penguin Putnam ‘Aifreann na marbh’ [Mass for

‘Aifreann na marbh’ [Mass for the dead] have not previously been available in English

The written word winds through their varying accents and rhythms

intensity and substance

making the case for the women-only anthology with characteristic wit and flair

Monsoon Diary by Joseph Woods Penguin Putnam ‘Aifreann na marbh’ [Mass forBetween the birth of the poets daughter and the deaths of his parents, the poems in Monsoon Diary attempt to make sense of the world, from a mid life flight from home en famille to new perspectives on both the past and the future. Monsoon Diary strikes an often elegiac tone, betraying a growing awareness of mortality and the many losses that come with age. But it also bears witness to a country transitioning from dictatorship to democracy, finds the