Mysteries of the HomeMysteries of the Home gathers together a selection of poems from Paula Meehans two seminal collections, The Man who was Marked by Winter (1991) and Pillow Talk (1994), both published by Gallery Press. Included here are some of her best known and best loved poems: The Pattern, The Statue of the Virgin at Granard Speaks, My Father Perceived as a Vision of St Francis and The Wounded Child. A transformative writing which seeks to turn the skin inside out

and women seeking fleshpot escapes

DCI Ernie Bright is dead

Jon Andersen lives in New England with his wife

When I stopped looking behind my back to see if anyone was following me to harm me

stretching for who knows where

in which various people comment on the agony and death of Christ

the poems and other short writings of German poet Michael Augustin are instantly recognizable and not easily forgotten

with a translation by Irish poet and Augustinian priest Padraig J

Inna Kabysh

It is his publishing house

male preoccupation with mechanisms and systems

simpler life lived close to nature