'Glass' is the debut poetry title from Emily Cooper, a writer and
poet from Ireland. Cooper's poetics masterfully create a compelling
space that deliberately excludes wide views-instead bringing her
pen up close to a dilapidated house in a small rural town with its
own personality. The traces and presence of those who have existed
in those spaces-real and imagined-become interdependent in the
narrative. Rural, intimate, isolated and hospitable, she ponders
the context of ownership of buildings in 'A fountain pen slices my
leg through a bin bag as I move into my new house', and celebrates
the old ones collapsing along with their social history. A tunnel
of light, the vulnerability of garlic charcoaling in hot oil and
the layering dust in-between floorboards are intercut with quiet
moments of solitude, affection, disappointment and intimacy.
Outside of these spaces of physical realities, there is a strong
sense of affection for the enduring landscape of Donegal. Her poems
are peppered with the idea of possibilities, of parallel lives and
the potential for futures unknown and unseen.
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