Dancing at Oakmead Road
Selected Poems Dancing at Oakmead Road is published in tandem with a new collection, Light that is both wave and particle. It presents her choice of poems from seven collections, updating her earlier selection, Sound Barrier: Poems 1982-2002. Maura Dooleyâs poetry is remarkable for embracing both lyricism and political consciousness, for its fusion of head and heart. These qualities have won her wide acclaim. Helen Dunmore (in Poetry Review) admired her âsharp and forcefulâ intelligence. Adam Thorpe praised her ability âto enact and find images for complex feelingsâŠHer poems have both great delicacy and an undeniable toughnessâŠshe manages to combine detailed domesticity with lyrical beauty, most perfectly in the metaphor of memory â (Literary Review). Dancing at Oakmead Road is published on Maura Dooley's 70th birthday in tandem with a new collection, Light that is both wave and particle. It presents her choice of poems from seven collections beginning with Ivy Leaves & Arrows (1986), updating her earlier selection, Sound Barrier: Poems 1982-2002, which drew on books including Explaining Magnetism (1991) and Kissing a Bone (1996), with the addition of later poems from Life Under Water (2008), The Silvering (2016) and Five Fifty-Five (2023). Kissing a Bone and Life Under Water were both shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize.
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Selected Poems Dancing at Oakmead Road is published in tandem with a new collection, Light that is both wave and particle. It presents her choice of poems from seven collections, updating her earlier selection, Sound Barrier: Poems 1982-2002. Maura Dooleyâs poetry is remarkable for embracing both lyricism and political consciousness, for its fusion of head and heart. These qualities have won her wide acclaim. Helen Dunmore (in Poetry Review) admired her âsharp and forcefulâ intelligence. Adam Thorpe praised her ability âto enact and find images for complex feelingsâŠHer poems have both great delicacy and an undeniable toughnessâŠshe manages to combine detailed domesticity with lyrical beauty, most perfectly in the metaphor of memory â (Literary Review). Dancing at Oakmead Road is published on Maura Dooley's 70th birthday in tandem with a new collection, Light that is both wave and particle. It presents her choice of poems from seven collections beginning with Ivy Leaves & Arrows (1986), updating her earlier selection, Sound Barrier: Poems 1982-2002, which drew on books including Explaining Magnetism (1991) and Kissing a Bone (1996), with the addition of later poems from Life Under Water (2008), The Silvering (2016) and Five Fifty-Five (2023). Kissing a Bone and Life Under Water were both shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize.
