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New Release: Cnámha Scoilte/Split Bones

Powerfully resonant in its exploration of shifting identities and cultural inheritance, Split Bones: A collection of prose poetry is an extraordinary work of lyrical intensity. In this collection, Julie Breathnach-Banwait engages with the uncanniness of place and the politics of memory in prose poems that fracture the threshold between replete and hollow. Here, prose poems are brittle bones split open to expose their soft marrow. Written in Irish language and translated into English by the poet, this dual language book of prose poetry with its electrifying rhythms and beguiling cadence is a rare and remarkable accomplishment.

Cassandra Atherton

Professor of Writing and Literature

Deakin University, Melbourne, VIC

D’árdaíodh m’anam is mo mheón is mé ag léamh is ag déanamh machnamh ar an gcnuasach iontach seo. Scrineóracht úr is ea í. Thóg an ealaíontóir ó tobar na Gaelainne a bhfuair sí ina háit dúchais is sníomh sí a bhí oiriúnach di le híomhanna atá bunaithe ar an saol a bhlais sí  san domhan in iomlán. Sé toradh a héacht ná gaisce a gheallfadh do chroí, tá sé chomh hálainn is chomh hionspaireadach sin.

Professor Tom O’Donoghue

The University of Western Australia

Perth, WA