{"id":1600443,"date":"2026-10-12T21:09:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T18:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mob25.com\/blog\/?p=1600443"},"modified":"2026-10-12T21:09:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T18:09:24","slug":"playing-the-octopus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mob25.com\/blog\/playing-the-octopus\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing the Octopus"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Playing<\/p>\n

Joint Winner of the Michael Hartnett Poetry Award 2018.In <\/p>\n

Playing the Octopus, her eighth collection of poems, Mary O’Malley’s sensitivity to the spirit of Ireland’s west coast is as attuned as ever. In a world both earthen and dreamlike, bodily and mythical, a trout is seen to ‘swallow light through his skin’, a wolf ‘howls the great open vowel of his need’, and in the emptiness where a tree once stood, ‘a tree-shaped brightness dances’. Over the course of the collection, O’Malley twins the Irish west coast with the American east coast, Inis M\u00f3r with Coney Island, the parish with the metropolis, the pipes with the axe, each offering its own comfort and wonder. Sylvia Plath, Lois Lane and Antigone feature in an unlikely cast of heroines through which O’Malley tests the mythologies of motherhood and femininity (‘no mother is ever good enough until she’s dead’, writes the poet, with characteristic wit). <\/p>\n

Playing the Octopus is a body of writing buoyed by the redemptive power and sustaining joy of music, and it closes with O’Malley’s translations of the Irish poet Se\u00e1n \u00d3 R\u00edord\u00e1in and the Spaniard Federico Garc\u00eda Lorca.<\/p>\n

\u0410\u0432\u0442\u043e\u0440: Mary O’Malley<\/p>\n

ISBN: 9781784102814<\/p>\n

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