{"title":"Books by Mary O'Malley","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781800174146","title":"The Shark Nursery","description":"The poems of The Shark Nursery respond to a disturbed world. The experience of lockdown, of lives lived in an online reality, and of the animal world are the interlocking parts of the poems' world. The animal poems draw on the tradition of animals in Irish poetry and myth. From the wolf's touch to the rat's tweet, animals and fish refuse the roles human beings impose on them. O'Malley's animals find new language in the face of contemporary perils.In fusing mythic with modern elements, The Shark Nursery is marked by rigorous attention to language and tone. Its poems weave between human, animal and metaphysical realms. In a space before noise begins, tigers visit cities and a white leopard sits on a lawn in Suburbia. In the strange, sealed off world portrayed in the 'The Ballad of Googletown' –              an eerie, genuine ballad, where the familiar tropes and refrains of ballad are hung out to dry –              lives are lived online and social interaction is unnecessary.This new book promises, as Joseph O'Connor has written, all those things 'we go to Mary O'Malley for: truthfulness, seriousness, playfulness, too, and then a particular sort of hesitating and hard-won wisdom.'","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44581182767282,"sku":"9781800174146","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781800174146_a5054a53-a8d2-4f8e-b15c-80138580b477.jpg?v=1786026831"},{"product_id":"9780906399019","title":"Once a Catholic","description":"\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56295253311861,"sku":"9780906399019","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780906399019_6f997f2c-dbdd-4215-b8dc-c649689d11c3.jpg?v=1786016125"},{"product_id":"9781784107956","title":"Gaudent Angeli","description":"What is time? Our understanding of it changes, between when the angels rejoiced at the incarnation to when Einstein and then Feynman reconceived it. In the strange, unregulated and disorienting world of the web we experience it in new ways, its predictabilities wrested from us. In Mary O'Malley's Demeter and Persephone sequence, time is experienced through generations, but the new gods play differently and spin the clock hands in their own mischievous ways. New generations find the time-patterns and expectations of their predecessors arcane and incomprehensible, and vice versa. Through mythology and ecology, this book sets out to restore connections. The book opens with oranges orbiting a winter kitchen. Time in its dozen guises moves through the poems, as does fate.   Mary O'Malley was appointed 2019 Writer Fellow at Trinity College Dublin.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56303963177333,"sku":"9781784107956","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781784107956_461b509c-9cfd-46be-946c-2994986a4c61.jpg?v=1787747023"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-mary-omalley.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}