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Posted on May 9th, 2010 by Katie
Readings in July and September 2010
Katie Donovan gives a reading with well-known journalist Nell McCafferty at the Centre for Creative Practices, 15 Lr Baggot Street, Dublin 2 on July 2nd at 8pm.
Katie Donovan gives a reading with poet Siobhan Campbell at Aspects Festival of Literature, Bangor, Co Down, on September 25th. Time to be confirmed.
Rootling: New & Selected Poems
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Launch June 1st 7pm Damer Hall, Stephen’s Green, Dublin
This book draws on three previous collections, together with a whole collection of new poems, Rootling. Here Katie Donovan’s lively sensibility explores motherhood, with the birth of her two children: from the blues to the pleasures of breastfeeding, she charts the shock of birth and the delights of watching her babies develop. Enmeshed in the familial and domestic, the death of her father prompts her to shuttle back to scenes of her own rural childhood, as well as mourning the passing of a remarkable man. The end of the collection dwells on her partner’s courageous struggle with cancer.
Purchase Rootling at amazon.co.uk