ARGONAUT BOOKS

Aoife Lyall's second collection follows her widely praised debut Mother, Nature. Her book beautifully captures ordinary moments in life that crystallise in the face of crisis and threat, focusing on the earliest weeks and months of the pandemic, exploring first steps, last breaths, milestones, millstones and the world behind the front door. Reviews Aoife Lyall's debut, Mother, Nature, explores pregnancy, loss, motherhood, hospitals and grief in moving lyric poems that amount to an extended sequence - the thematic resonance of the collection is detailed, and shows a thoroughn...Read More