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Poet, children’s author, teacher, visual artist. Rosemary Canavan was born in Scotland, brought up in County Antrim and lives in Cork. Her first collection, The Island (2004), was published by Story Line Press, and was short-listed for the Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize. Her second collection, Trucker's Moll (Salmon, 2009), was launched at the Munster Literature Centre's Éigse 2009 festival. In 2001 she was Writer-in-Residence for Co. Kerry, and from 2006-2007 she was Poetry Editor for Southword. Her two children’s books, Lios Chaitríona and Caitriona agus an tÉan Oir, were published by An Gúm, and she has read at a number of festivals including the Cheltenham Literary Festival.
Unravelling
If I claw for a spelling, struggle for words, is it lostness or part of my thought unravelling,
elderliness creeping in at the back of my skull? Fear flickers as I wonder
do links crack and fall out like old machinery wearing as it thumps away in a shed
or corrodes in a long-forgotten warehouse? Would they lie on the floor of my brain like broken springs,
gap-toothed wheels I could pick out to make new fantastical structures if I dusted them off, cast them to sculptures
I could erect for the worthy to admire; yes, but who’d want a crazy, knowing old fleabag,
who’d care that the me that conformed had rushed away into the distance and a drivelling, frenzied hag
had taken her place? Crazy Jane might be fine as a notion but the real McCoy is hard to take:
a bewildered old zealot, or a woman who stares, and sees, marching across the sands, a new order …
©2010 Rosemary Canavan
Author Links
Canavan in the MLC Writers Index More about Trucker's Moll at Salmon Press Review of Trucker's Moll in Southword Journal Online
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