Guarding the Flame Chris Kinsey through the cities and centres

through the cities and centres of Europe

Tarek el-Ariss Being Abbas el Abd by Ahmad Alaidy

Sandra McPherson

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Padraig O'Morain's poetry has been published in anthologies and magazines in Ireland and the UK and broadcast on radio

Guarding the Flame Chris Kinsey through the cities and centresTaking its title from the myth surrounding St Bridgid's flame in Kildare, Guarding the Flame explores women's voices from Irish history and myth, from the every day woman in the market who imagines herself transformed if only briefly, to the voice of the river goddess Sionna, to Joyce's Nora Barnacle. The collection contains poems of nature, of myth, of travel in Europe, Nepal and Africa. There are poems examining belonging unbelonging, metamorphosis,