The Blue Cocktail by Audrey Molloy Robert Macfarlane are startlingly free-wheeling

are startlingly free-wheeling

repercussions and reprises

praise and lament

Faisal Mohyuddin delves into the past of his parents and their neighbours in Pakistan and India in a self-consciously impossible attempt to find some way of belonging to a place that is lost

The Blue Cocktail by Audrey Molloy Robert Macfarlane are startlingly free-wheelingAudrey Molloys collection, The Important Things, was shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize. Stephen Sextons citation noted, In this striking, moving, bold debut, Audrey Molloys poems move between Ireland and Australia, parenthood and daughterhood, and the sensual worlds of the body, its attendant desires and intensities. Beyond these essential forces, The Important Things, in all its formal elegance, is a book of grief too.