Whisper of a Crow-s Wing

Published simultaneously in Ireland by Salmon Poetry, Majella Cullinanes remarkable second collection, Whisper of a Crow's Wing, is the work of a poet with a distinct and powerful voice. These poems weigh and examine oppositions the distance of time and place, the balance of life and death, the poets New Zealand home and her Irish heritage. Cullinane conjures the ghosts that haunt places and objects; our inner and outer world, with rich, physical language. She writes with lyrical intensity about motherhood and family life, including the experience of miscarriage, and the process of moving through grief and loss to a place of acceptance and healing.

This is a profound collection from a poet alive to the hidden world of memory and imagination, of the sublime in the everyday, tempered always by a shadow of the fragility of life and love.

Featured in the 25 June 2018 New Zealand newsletter.
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