Rope of Sand by Fiona Larkin Tara Bergin the autobiographical and the fabulous

the autobiographical and the fabulous

Her subjects here are grief and love

where elegies for the poet’s father sit alongside meditations on the d/Deaf experience

Carrie Etter and a host of other new and established talent

‘With his unique way of seeing

Rope of Sand by Fiona Larkin Tara Bergin the autobiographical and the fabulousIn a compelling, nuanced debut, Fiona Larkin scrutinises instability and asks what we hold onto, and what we let go. Her poems, delicate and tough, consider the shifting relationships in couples, between parent and child, how a friendship is formed and broken. She searches for those languages and registers we remember, and how we might lose them, and the place of the spiritual when faith, like the tide, recedes. Sand is always equivocal, unreliable,