Books by Katie Donovan

This powerful new collection combines Katie Donovan's unflinching insight into our human foibles with her exceptional descriptive gift. The years of her husband's throat cancer are charted in poems by turns tender, harsh and darkly humorous.

Katie Donovan is a leading Irish poet. "Rootling" draws on three previous Bloodaxe collections, "Watermelon Man" (1993), "Entering the Mare" (1997) and "Day of the Dead" (2002), together with a whole collection of new work.