Cathy Kelly
UNICEF ambassador and prolific best selling author Cathy Kelly regails us with her fine line
"They unswaddled the wet fern of her hair and made an exhibition of its coil. Let the air at her leathery beauty. Pash of tallow. Perishable treasure. Her broken nose is dark as a turf clod. Her eye holes blank as pools in the old workings."
That’s from Strange Fruit which is Seamus Heaney and it was from the North Collection in 1975 and I first read all that collection when I was a teenager and just Heaney’s writing and the power, the passion, the description, I mean you were there.
You were there with the bog bodies when they were alive. You just feel them as living beings and I have to say I love Seamus Heaney. I would read this whole book Open Ground again and again. It’s very beautiful and soulful.
