Deirdre Brennan is een vooraanstaande schrijfster wier werk poëzie, korte verhalen en drama omvat. Haar poëtische output kenmerkt zich door diepe inzichten in de menselijke ervaring en een tweetalige benadering die haar expressie verrijkt. Brennan verweeft meesterlijk thema's over verschillende genres heen, en biedt lezers een rijke en gelaagde literaire ervaring. Haar verhalen en gedichten resoneren vaak in nationale media, wat getuigt van hun universele aantrekkingskracht en literaire verdienste.
This volume combines new collections by established authors Deirdre Brennan and Máighréad Medbh with a collection by emerging author Nuala Ní Chonchúir. The diversity of their work reveals much skill and insight with astute observations—sometimes comical, sometimes sad—on the human condition and the world around us.
Swimming with Pelicans / Ag Eitiilt fara Condciir is if major new dual language collection from Deirdre Brennan, one of lreland's foremost writers in both English and Irish. In this collection there are eyocations of memory, poems of war, dispossession and the removal of freedom. Landscapes hold a sense of threat and foreboding, hiding the missing, the murdered, the unbaptised. Dream landscapes feature as background to the hurt for imagination and inspiration. Old deities, Celtic, Hindu. or Mayan break' through consciousness to claim their dues;' and old, languages whisper just beyond the range of hearing. Life's transience—birth, ageing and death, including the death of children and the demolition of the old to make way for the new—is addressed in stunning sequences.
The collection features selected poems in both English and Irish, showcasing four decades of the poet's acclaimed work. It delves into a variety of themes such as birth and women's issues, the beauty of nature, love and imagination, as well as the complexities of war, aging, and death.
In this contemporary drama, five women go to a house party for a cosmetics sale. The women soon learn the cosmetic manufacturer has a special formula laid out for the evening, which they insist on being followed. Dissatisfied with the formula, the women break the rules with consequences they couldn't have imagined.