In Sight of Home by Nessa O'mahony
This is the best verse-novel I've read in years, a many-stranded docu-fiction inspired by a real archive of unpublished correspondence recording the Australian adventures of the emigrant Butlers of Kilkenny. Personal letters, with their brisk, vivid authenticity, contrast with brilliantly convincing poems created by O'Mahony in the personae of the long-suffering protagonist, Margaret, and her smart young serving-girl, Lizzie. But this is only part of the story.
Nessa O'Mahony is a Dublin-born poet and novelist. She has published four books of poetry Bar Talk, Trapping a Ghost, In Sight of Home, and Her Father's Daughter. O'Mahony won the National Women's Poetry Competition in 1997 and was shortlisted for the Patrick Kavanagh Prize and Hennessy Literature Awards
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| ISBN 13 | 9781907056079 |
| ISBN 10 | 1907056076 |
| Title | In Sight of Home |
| Author | Nessa O'mahony |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Salmon Poetry |
| Year published | 2009-05-01 |
| Number of pages | 195 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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