Arcana by Jessica Traynor

Arcana by Jessica TraynorJessica Traynors New Arcana explores grief, bad boyfriends and the power of female friendship through readings of the Tarot and Tim Burton movies. Moving from teenage friendship and destructive relationships towards a tangling with the realities of family life, domesticity, and desire, this highly inventive collection builds into a heartbroken letter to a dear friend (personified in the poems as lydia deetz) who died by suicide. Interwoven with

over the course of a year

The country is changing and

Ireland's most brilliant historian shows how important this tragic war was for understanding Ireland now

But not everyone

Ireland is in turmoil

or just trying to make sense of things as best we can

a master work of scholarship' Bernard Crick

At a time of political uncertainty

Luckily for Spinderella

A cat named Chobi sends silent messages of courage to a young woman

Heaney not only translated classic works of Latin and Old English but also a great number of poems from Spanish

As in The Lost Words