The Blue Cocktail by Audrey Molloy Tapsalteerie It's that time of year

It's that time of year again

Byrne’s hymn to his brother is bardic

poetry by Black feminist and arguments for the right to remain child-free

whether funeral pyre or beacon in the dark light

The Blue Cocktail by Audrey Molloy Tapsalteerie It's that time of yearAudrey Molloys collection, The Important Things, was shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize. Stephen Sextons citation noted, In this striking, moving, bold debut, Audrey Molloys poems move between Ireland and Australia, parenthood and daughterhood, and the sensual worlds of the body, its attendant desires and intensities. Beyond these essential forces, The Important Things, in all its formal elegance, is a book of grief too.