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\nsalmonpoetry  \nDigitized by the Internet Archivein 2022 with funding fromKahle/Austin Foundation  \nsalmonpoetry  \nPublishing Irish &InternationalPoetry Since 1981  \nThe Road,Slowly is the ground-breaking debut collection of lovepoems from award-winning Irishpoet,Liz Quirke.With an assuredvoice,her poems weave through theexperience of becoming a wife andmother in a collection of considerablelyrical beauty.Her poetry ploughsnew thematic ground with confidenceand subtle,delicate observations.Same-sex parenting in modernIreland;non-biological motherhoodand ways in which the past can informthe present are explored withcourage.Quirke celebrates theconnection between parents andchildren within a non-nuclear familywith scalpel sharpness and adiscerning eye.Her poems paytribute to the achievement of family.  \nThe Road,Slowly  \nLiz Quirke  \nPublished in 2018 bySalmon Poetry  \nCliffs of Moher,County Clare,IrelandWebsite:www.salmonpoetry.comEmail:info@salmonpoetry.com  \nCopyright ◎Liz Quirke,2018  \nISBN 978-1-912561-12-4  \nAll rights reserved.No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted inany form or by any means,electronic or mechanical,including photography,recording,or any information storage or retrieval system,without permission inwriting from the publisher.The book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not,by way of trade or otherwise,be lent,resold or otherwise circulated without thepublisher's prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it ispublished and without a similar condition,including this condition,being imposed onthe subsequent purchaser.  \nCoVER ARTWORK:The Road,Slowly by Yvonne Hennessy-www.yvonnehennessy.comAUTHOR PHOTOGRAPH:Yvonne HennessyCOVER DESIGN&TYPESETTING:Siobhán Hutson  \nPrinted in Ireland by Sprint Print  \nSalmon Poetry gratefilly acknowledges the support ofThe Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaion  \nfor Yvonne,Juno and Nova,my loves  \nAcknowledgements  \nAcknowledgements are due to the editors of the following publications in whichsome of these poems first appeared:An Ait Eile;Boyne Berries;Crannog;HennessyNew IrishWriting(The Irish Times);Inkroci(trans.Italian);Impossible Archetype;IrishExaminer;Listowel Writers'Week Winners'Anthology 2017;One (Jacar Press,US);Poethead-An Index of Women Poets;Poetry Day Mixed Tape 2017(Lagan Online);Skylight 47;Southword;Spontaneity;The Bogman's Cannon;The Best New British andIrish Poets 2016(Eyewear Publishing,UK);The Hidden and the Devine:Female Voicesin Ireland(A New Ulster);The Ofi Press(Mexico);The Stony Thursday Book.  \n\"Juno\"and\"Nurture\"were nominated for the 45th Hennessy New Irish WritingEmerging Poetry Award and shortlisted for the 2015 Cúirt New Writing Prize.\"Sculpture”won the 2015 Poems for Patience Competition.\"The Trees and TheBreeze”won the 2017 Listowel Writers'Week Originals Short Poem Prize.\"Daedalus Speaks to Icarus,His Son\"was longlisted for the 2016 Dermot HealyPoetry Award.\"Rite\"was shortlisted in the Over The Edge New Writer OfTheYear 2012 competition.In 2017 as part of a collaboration between Liz QuirkeandYvonne Hennessy,\"Nurture\"was reimagined in an audio-visual installationtitled \"The Weight of Chaos\"which was shown at CCAM in Galway and SurfaceTension:the Members'Exhibition at Interface Residency,Inagh Valley duringClifden Arts Festival and in Detroit Stockholm,Sweden.  \nI would like to express my gratitude to the following individuals and organisa-tions for their support over the years:Maire Holmes and the Writers in Res,Eleanor Hooker,Martina Evans,Leanne O'Sullivan,Elaine Feeney,AoibheannMcCann at Utter Word,Ruth McKee,Kevin Higgins &Susan Millar DuMars atOver The Edge,Felicia McCarthy,Rob Childers,Lorna Shaughnessy,RebeccaAnne Barr,the Skylight Poets,The Poetry Bus,Doneraile Literary and ArtsFestival,Bray Literary Festival,Dani Gill,The Galway Review,CuirtInternational Festival of Literature,Margaret Flannery and Galway UniversityHospitals ArtSTrust,James Harrold","cbCaifZvNo7IvamA","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaifZvNo7IvamA","pdf",2288682,88,"English","# Prologue\n## I Don't Write You Love Poems Anymore\n## Boluisce\n# Chapter 1 - More than Bone'and Flesh\n## Housework\n## Waiting Room\n## What Has My Body Done\n## Carving\n## Lucky\n## Newborn\n## Fall At 33 Weeks\n## The Painting\n## Nurture\n## Vacancy\n## Juno\n## Nocturne With Bathtime\n## Night Vision\n## In The Dead Of\n## The Shining Swell\n## Teeth\n## Sculpture\n# Chapter 2 - All the Hidden Truths\n## Sentinel\n## Counterfeit\n## Reflection\n## Auto-Immune\n## Ri,Ro,Rem\n## Poison\n## Rite\n## Daedalus Speaks To Icarus,His Son\n## Salvage\n## Women Poets Teach Me How To Be A Woman\n## Four Parts Distinct\n## Where All The Light Can Gather\n## Romance\n## Portraits Of My Lover\n# Chapter 3 - Water I Scoop with Netted Fingers\n## Nova\n## I See My Bones In No Other\n## In Silhouette,The Change Is Clear\n## We Settle Where Limbs Overlap\n## When Is The Rainbow,Momma?\n## A Record Of You\n## Seasons You Witness\n## In A Minute\n## Myth In The Kitchen\n## The Trees And The Breeze\n## These Nights\n## From You I Want\n## Spiddal Sonnet For She Who Loves Me\n# Epilogue\n## Say\n## The Road, Slowly\n# Notes\n# About the author","[{\"question\":\"What themes does The Road, Slowly focus on?\",\"answer\":\"The collection explores love poetry rooted in becoming a wife and mother, including same-sex parenting and non-biological motherhood in modern Ireland. 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