Fallen by Audrey Molloy parenthood Blending lyric and narrative modes

Blending lyric and narrative modes the dominant strands of American Anthem focus on the tragedies

In it were the bodies of infants - wards of the Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home

the taboos of illness and desire

these poems also document the tragedy of the Holocaust

in Antiquity and  beyond

Fallen by Audrey Molloy parenthood Blending lyric and narrative modesPublished 1st October 2025. "Wives are afraid of me now.' From the opening line of Fallen there is a sense of danger and intimacy. In her latest and most risqu collection Audrey Molloy asks: What makes a good person? What does it mean to be a fallen woman? And can she ever redeem herself? "You are one side of an abyss. Everything decent, the other.' Among an inventive repertoire of forms Fallen is laced with a series of poems that convey the thoughts