Drawn To The Light

Author : Orla Fay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (969 download)

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Download or read book Drawn to the Light written by Orla Fay and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-12 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Drawn to the Light' is chapbook of poetry chronicling the very early to the more mature poems of rising Irish poet Orla Fay. Eminent Irish poet Jean O'Brien has written "Orla Fay's latest chapbook 'Drawn to the Light' is what it says, many of the poems within are planetary, filled with the sun, moon and stars and elementary -- sea, fire, darkness and spirit. All imbued with a delicate love of nature, they possess a beguiling mysteriousness that draws the reader in. Her title poem gives resonance to her sense of place; Laytown, Ballivor, Ireland and Meath in particular. Her poems are sure-footed and nuanced and as she says in the title poem 'Drawn to the Light':'On the pivot of the weather we are dependent'...be that inner or outer weather. Her work ranges over the mythological and including the real Hill of Tara, it weaves a rich tapestry of folklore, nature, fact and fiction. 'Tara floats above the world of men, tainted and sleepingIn the lowland where few even dream of Xanadu.'As she says in her quietly powerful poem 'Empire of the Sun':'Life has become a great mirror'And this is what Fay is good at, reflecting us back on ourselves.She has worked as Editor for Boyne Berries magazine and has had work published in numerous magazines and papers such as The Irish Times, Cyphers, Poetry Ireland Review and many others. Her work has been placed/commended in many competitons including Cúirt New Writing Prize (2019), The Anthony Cronin Poetry Prize (2019), The Dermot Healy Poetry Prize (2017), and was nominated for the Forward Prize (2016).Multi award winning poet Evan Costigan says "Orla Fay's beautifully assured poems journey from Irish folklore to Greek and Roman mythology, but are mostly rooted in her native county of Meath where an old farmer morphs into Lazarus in wellingtons and Laytown Strand is spattered with 'the guts of the sea.' Striking images serve to elevate the ordinary, but the poems here also convey the capacity of the natural world to console and sustain us during difficult periods. Drawn to the Light is a timely collection and should resonate strongly with readers, reminding us that 'painful endings disguise new beginnings' ('Lau Tzu at the Door')."While Welsh poet K.S. Moore says "These poems are lit from within, as well as by the sun they turn to. They burst into bloom with trembling petals that invite our close inspection. Here is life lived through all the senses. Here is a spiritual connection to nature, an openness to other worlds and to rebirth."