Rope of Sand by Fiona Larkin Maura Dooley these poems consider the ways

these poems consider the ways in which exile and displacement

A strong poem is not just for crisis

they sit next to us on the bus

the often-fraught notions of womanhood and motherhood are also shown to feed into ideas on who is able to mother

/even in places where it has gone under'

Rope of Sand by Fiona Larkin Maura Dooley these poems consider the waysIn a compelling, nuanced debut, Fiona Larkin scrutinises instability and asks what we hold onto, and what we let go. Her poems, delicate and tough, consider the shifting relationships in couples, between parent and child, how a friendship is formed and broken. She searches for those languages and registers we remember, and how we might lose them, and the place of the spiritual when faith, like the tide, recedes. Sand is always equivocal, unreliable,