(for Susan Hiller)
my mother, who could not sing, told me.
As a young woman, she helped garner
the last grains of Tyrone Irish. (More …)
Moya Cannon was born in County Donegal, Ireland. Keats Lives (Carcanet Press, Manchester) is her fifth collection of poetry. She is a winner of the Brendan Behan Award and the Lawrence O’Shaughnessy Award. She has been editor of Poetry Ireland Review and was 2011 Heimbold Professor of Irish Studies at Villanova University, Pennsylvania.
(for Susan Hiller)
my mother, who could not sing, told me.
As a young woman, she helped garner
the last grains of Tyrone Irish. (More …)