Five Fifty-Five by Maura Dooley Kristiina Ehin ’ – Sean O’Brien

’ – Sean O’Brien

Devotions offers much to love

familial poem sequences by ‘this brilliant lyricist of human darkness’ (Fiona Sampson)

Astra Papachristodoulou

He spent his writing life not so much swimming against the tide as ignoring the stream’s existence… He was one of those by whom the language lives

Five Fifty-Five by Maura Dooley Kristiina Ehin ’ – Sean O’BrienMaura Dooley's poetry is remarkable for embracing both lyricism and political consciousness, for its fusion of head and heart. These qualities have won her wide acclaim. Helen Dunmore (in Poetry Review) admired her 'sharp and forceful' intelligence. Adam Thorpe praised her ability 'to enact and find images for complex feelings Her poems have both great delicacy and an undeniable toughness she manages to combine detailed domesticity with lyrical