The Missing Months by Lachlan Mackinnon Faber & Faber ’ – Máirín Nic Eoin

’ – Máirín Nic Eoin

Akure Wall

and was educated in both Canada and England

simultaneously exuberant and mournful

as they unfold

The Missing Months by Lachlan Mackinnon Faber & Faber ’ – Máirín Nic EoinMany of the poems in The Missing Months occupy the strange hiatus afforded by lockdown. They look forward as well as back, toying with possible futures, enthused by utopian dreams or fearing cultural and bodily entropy. They celebrate and mourn the lives of friends and relatives, captivated by carefully tended images from the past. Lockdown's 'missing months' in the world of a four year old granddaughter are laid down and remembered for her. Familiar