Beautiful Nowhere by Louisa Campbell dedalus press Cathal Searcaigh is one of

Cathal Searcaigh is one of Ireland's leading poets

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and the second with the topography and the critical antecedents of the poem

Her syntax and image-making – both equally bold – bring the world to us in new and compelling guises

as well as a radical queer critique of the normative

Beautiful Nowhere by Louisa Campbell dedalus press Cathal Searcaigh is one ofThe vivid, passionately wrought poems of Beautiful Nowhere encompass themes of childhood trauma, madness, dissociation, psychosis and even an exorcism. Louisa Campbells sure handling of these dark and difficult themes draws upon five decades of experience, ensuring the poems unflinching honesty, empathy and authenticity in depicting extreme states of mind. Yet these are poems of joy as much as despair, always looking towards the furthest we can see; a