Maura Dooley's poetry is remarkable for embracing both lyricism and
political consciousness, for its fusion of head and heart. These
qualities have won her wide acclaim. Helen Dunmore (in Poetry
Review) admired her 'sharp and forceful' intelligence. Adam Thorpe
praised her ability 'to enact and find images for complex
feelings...Her poems have both great delicacy and an undeniable
toughness...she manages to combine detailed domesticity with
lyrical beauty, most perfectly in the metaphor of memory '
(Literary Review). The Silvering is her first new collection since
Life Under Water, which was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize in
2008. Looking in, looking out, looking through are the recurring
perspectives offered by these poems. These are poems interested in
shifting light and what it reveals, reflects or conceals and
especially, perhaps, in what remains 'caught in the silvering'.
Poetry Book Society Recommendation.
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