BLACK and BLUE: a sequence of sonnets
Cathy Galvin's emotionally stunning first collection of poems
Cathy
Galvin has roots in Coventry, West Yorkshire and
Connemara: she now
lives in London. A journalist, her
work has appeared
in
many national and international journals.
She
co-founded the Sunday Times-EFG Short Story Award
and
is an associate editor of the Warwick
Review.
She
edited Red,
the
Waterstone's anthology of new writing
and
is director and founder of the UK's leading promoter
of
short fiction writing, The
Word Factory.
Praise for Black and Blue:
"A crown of sonnets seems at first an intractable
and
even intimidating prospect. When a writer
confidently
inhabits its space, its spaces within
spaces,
the crown becomes an arena of grace.
Cathy
Galvin's Black
and Blue
is such a performance.
Her sequence moves
brilliantly through and over
those spaces with drama,
immediacy and power."
David Morley