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‘M\u00e9lisande Fitzsimons\u2019s new collection is jam-packed with intrigue, interesting information, surreal and dreamy interjections and a love of language which is enriched by its author’s bilingual dexterity.’<\/p>\n

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\u201cM\u00e9lisande Fitzsimons\u2019 gorgeous lyric poetry asks questions, often using these inquiries as a point of departure, and in doing so anticipates where the listener-reader\u2019s mind might already be going. More often than not, she subverts our inferences with subtle misdirection. It is a playful poetry in its occasional obliqueness, though never losing you to deep in its folds as it circulates, outlines, sketches and blurs its themes of longing and perhaps, more persistently, memory. It is, significantly, a form of memory which exists not in spite of, but by the very nature of the page.\u201d<\/p>\n

Matthew Carbery<\/p>\n

Published June 2023. Uk \u00a310.00<\/p>\n

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