To Air the Soul, Throw All the Windows Wide: New and Selected Poetry

Passionate and profoundly poignant, Mary Dorcey's poetry collection seeks images of redemption. Original and catalytic, for 25 years she has written from the borderlines of human experience, speaking for the voiceless, informing and transforming the mainstream of Irish literature. Noted for a rare lyricism and clarity of style, Dorcey has won an international audience for poetry that explores complex truths often silenced in public discourse. Her subjects are the enduring questions of humanity: love and loss, sexual passion, separation, aging and death.