Mute/Unmute

Geraldine Mitchell’s poems offer a timely warning that the planet is mortal and a reassuring reminder of life’s cyclical nature. She reflects on a life marked out in distances – between cities; the sky to the sea; the spaces between the paw prints of a wolf; masterfully excavating extraordinary glimpses of the ordinary.

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This is the fourth collection from Geraldine Mitchell, a Dublin-born writer who won the Patrick Kavanagh Award for poetry. Her poems offer both a timely warning that the planet is mortal and a reassuring reminder of life’s cyclical nature. These poems are a stunning sketch of a world that is a place of great beauty and great challenge.