We Play Here by Dawn Watson #Translatedpoetry Harpur's four-part poem follows a

Harpur's four-part poem follows a number of threads

of a city overcome by an epidemic of weeping

“every bit of loving going out there

the field of this collection is holographic

We Play Here by Dawn Watson #Translatedpoetry Harpur's four-part poem follows aWe Play Here is a collection of four poem stories, taking place in an underdeveloped area of Protestant North Belfast in the summer of 1988, against a background of political turbulence during the Troubles. Written from the perspectives of four female friends in the months between finishing primary school and starting high school, the girls inhabit an eerie, elemental landscape of normalised violence, poverty and neglect. This is a lyrical and