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RESHAPING THE LIGHT is a collection of rare, essential, high quality poems. Ranging widely, from childhood and family to war and Holocaust, Joyce's work here is saturated with a wonderful light. If 'a cherry tree still debonair // diffuses light in carmine reds' it is the light that flows also out of the wonderful Lucia and a light that 'releases fresh sea air' from the oyster shell in Pearls. Disciplined and understated, deeply felt but never sentimental, the poetry in this collection is polished, impressive, essential and necessary. Here is a poet who reminds us that time creates a unique signature in each of us; that though the tidings brought by poets may be frail as glass, they become, over time, stunning and permanent revelations. RESHAPING THE LIGHT is a significant achievement. -Thomas McCarthy

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Breda Joyce grew up in Headford Co. Galway and lives near Clonmel, Co. Tipperary with her husband Mark and their daughters Caoimhe and Muireann. On retiring from second-level teaching, Breda fulfilled her ambition to study creative writing in U.C.C. where she won her first poetry prize and from where she graduated with an M.A in 2020. Her work has been shortlisted and highly commended in a number of competitions, the most recent being The Fool for Poetry Chapbook Competition 2021. Her poetry appears in various publications, anthologies and literary journals. Apart from writing, Breda enjoys sea- swimming, cycling and hiking in the hills near her home.

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