The Speculations of Country People by Majella Kelly
Poetry Book Society Recommendation Summer 2023
Peepal Tree Press Five of his later collections

Five of his later collections were translated by Anna Crowe and published by Bloodaxe in two compilations

was published in New Zealand 1972

amid the strings of gorgeous imagery

unsettling narratives about what wakes in us when we escape our day-lit selves to visit a place where the dream-like and the nightmarish are never far apart

The Speculations of Country People by Majella Kelly<br><b>Poetry Book Society Recommendation Summer 2023</b><br> Peepal Tree Press Five of his later collectionsThe astonishing poetry debut exploring hidden histories, mythical landscapes and self discovery in the face of limits on women's bodily autonomyIn 2017, the presence of a mass grave was confirmed in a disused sewage system in Tuam, County Galway. In it were the bodies of infants wards of the Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home, where from 1925 to 1961 the children of unmarried women were sent to live their lives in the care of nuns. Their deaths were the