Anne Connolly’s first collection started with a photograph of love-in-a-mist flowers and a search for their Latin name. Many of the poems explore the theme of loyalty and love of one’s country and their inescapable link with conflict throughout the ages, balanced and rounded out by the enduring bonds of affection and parental love.
“With their engaging dialogue between the personal and the political – scathing one moment, poignant the next – these poems by Anne Connolly are wonderfully readable.” – Eleanor Livingstone, StAnza Director.
“A wide compassion sings in the precise lyricism of these poems. The overriding sense is one of defiant joy in the “in-spite-of-everythingness that is love” – a life-affirming collection.” A.C. Clarke
Red Squirrel Press (Scotland)
 | Anne Marie ConnollyAnne Connolly is an Irish poet living and working and being a granny in Scotland. Her poems have been widely published in a variety of journals, magazines and on-line. She was the Makar for the Federation of Writers (Scotland) 2013-2014, has taken part in a couple of radio features and participates regularly in the performance/spoken word scene. Her work features on the beautiful Corbenic Poetry Path in the Camphill Community near Dunkeld. Love-in-a-mist was her first collection published by Red Squirrel Press in 2011. Downside Up (2008) and Not Entirely Beautiful (2013) were published by Calder Wood Press and Stewed Rhubarb respectively. A Ravel of Yarns, Anne’s second collection from Red Squirrel Press,was launched in the Scottish Poetry Library this year (2016). |
