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Noursihment, 17 Jul 2008
"Nourishment celebrates the feasts, and mourns the fasts, of deep sexual love. Essential nourishment indeed: for this is what it is to be fully human, to rejoice in the radiant dance of one's body with another's, and to sing soul unto soul. Anne Hartigan's work has always been acutely tuned to the sacredness of the sensual. Her rhythms spring from the page, re-inventing themselves with echoes of chants and prayers and charms. These poems reinvent and rewrite the erotic before our eyes, and 'rinse and wring the ear' with their rare emotional intelligence and compassion." Catherine Byron
"In Nourishment Hartigan explores the possibilities of love, sex and desire. The age-old association of food and sexuality is inscribed with the sacred connotations of a "holy sin", a private ritual that encompasses physical and emotional healing as well as the creative possibilities of words rooted in bodily experience. Love is both constructed by the social and unquestionably ruled by the needs of the individual. Hartigan's poems accomplish the difficult task of writing about love without ever falling prey to sentimentality. At times purely physical, at times deeply in love, her voice contributes to the dismantling of old-fashioned conceptions of female sexuality. These poems are a treat for the senses and present Anne Hartigan as undoubtedly one of the most talented voices in contemporary Irish poetry." Luz Mar González Arias, Universidad de Oviedo, Asturias, Spain
Anne Le Marquand Hartigan is an award winning poet, playwright, and artist. This is her fifth collection of poetry. Her many awards include the Open Poetry Award from Listowel Writers' Week, The Mobil Playwriting Award for her play The Secret Game, and awards for her visual art. Her poetry has been translated and included in anthologies worldwide and Anne has enjoyed the experience of reading her poetry internationally. She performed La Corbiere at the Samuel Beckett Theatre, Dublin, as a solo work in 1996. Of her five full length plays, Beds and La Corbiere were premiered at the Dublin Theatre Festival. Her work has been performed in the USA, New Zealand, Lebanon, and at the Edinburgh Festival. Her wide ranging work includes radio, a silent mime, prose, and her recent humorous poetry for children.
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