Poetry Book Group - The Work of a Winter, Maureen Boyle

August 2022 Poetry

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Monday, August 15th • 6:30 PM ET / 11:30 PM IST via Zoom
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Boyle’s luminous poems are intimate portraits of confined and unsung lives, furnished with a sensuous exactness. The outcast Hermione, mourning her lost children, is cheered by the “blushing crimson tips” appearing in her winter garden. Birds are significant reminders of life, color, and wry defiance in these self-assured poems of hard-won sustenance.

Maureen Boyle

About the Author
Maureen Boyle
 is a poet and teacher who lives in Belfast.  She studied at Trinity, East Anglia, UU and has a Creative Writing Masters from Queens Belfast.  She writes memoir in poetry and prose.  She won the Fish Short Memoir Prize in 2013 and a memoir poem was one of the winners in this year’s Fish Poetry Prize judged by former American poet-Laureate Billy Collins.  Her books are ‘The Work of a Winter’ and ‘Strabane’ -both published by Arlen House Press, Dublin.


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