Miracle and In Memory

My poetry book, The Wrong Miracle, has arrived at Salt’s distributor which means that it should be ambling its way to me, either here in the Canaries or to Donegal, over the next few days. If it goes North as opposed to sub-tropical way, I won’t actually get to see it till the 8th of August…..and by then it will be a near-3-week-old thing and probably wondering where she-who-has-spawned it is….deserter I hear it call…: )

But seriously, I am super-excited, even if as a means to deep-breathing, I have resorted to swallowing-hard like a very lost goldfish in its own little bowl…

I haven’t talked about this before but part of the book dedication is in memory of Ailish, my sister Rosie’s daughter, who was stillborn 5 years ago. The royalties from the sale of the book are going to Sands – the stillbirth and neonatal death charity.