Storm Damage Edited by Raine Geoghegan

Storm Damage Edited by Raine GeogheganStorm Damage weaves personal, historical and mythological threads to create a book that recognises and celebrates the power of words, not least in times of personal and collective challenge. Whether charting the events of her own family life or responding to records in Dublins North Inner City Folklore Collection, the poems and songs contained here have the shadow, and occasionally the light, of history cast over them. For a book in which the word

or a fluid free verse poem where birdsong flickers off the edges of the page

by and large

“An unusual

A lost father is redeemed through the gift of a chocolate rabbit

a French officer’s daughter indulging every impulse on her first visit to China

Afghanistan and North Africa to Europe

however fugitive

Federico Garcia Lorca

He has a doctorate and was Reader in English at the University of Gloucestershire

christened Lord Kitchener

Tadeusz Rózewicz

Samih al-Qasim