Now that the brighter days are here (though they have already started to shorten), I’m starting another reading and consideration bout; a lovely mix of stories, poetry, philosophy, essays, fiction and non-fiction. I assembled the pile for physical balance rather than any particular order. The following books appear from top to bottom in the photograph above:
- Mary O’Donnell Walking Ghosts (Mercier, 2025)
- Mary Oliver A Poetry Handbook (HarperCollins, 1994)
- Max Porter Shy (Faber, 2023)
- Susan Sontag As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh (Picador, 2012)
- Nóirín Ní Riain Sacred Rituals (Hachette, 2023)
- Greg Dinner Fragments (Ogham & Dabar Books, 2025)
- Gerald Dawe Catching the Light (Salmon, 2018)
- Philip Marsden Under a Metal Sky (Granta, 2025)
- Jan Zalasiewicz How to Read a Rock (The History Press, 2022)
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