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Jaki McCarrick's debut poetry collection opens with the title poem which recasts the crazed king of Irish legend as a modern-day female struggling to cope with the distractions and pressures of our age. London-born, and raised there and in Co. Louth, again and again McCarrick is drawn to the exploration of difference, of otherness, her keen eye seeing never just place alone, but glimpses of the longer narratives of connection and belonging. Throughout, the various roles of daughter, writer, friend, lover and neighbour are interrogated, with more than once a voice delivering a surprising new perspective on what we thought we knew or take for granted.

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Jaki McCarrick is an award-wining writer of plays, poetry and fiction, born in London and raised in London and Dundalk, Ireland. She won the Papatango Prize for New Writing for her play Leopoldville, while her play Belfast Girls was developed at the National Theatre Studio, London and has been staged numerous times internationally. Her debut fiction collection The Scattering was shortlisted for the 2014 Edge Hill Prize.

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