the elephant in the corner
by Aoife Mannix
new & selected poems

Recommended - The Supplement
A collection about pain, physical & emotional, written with unflinching honesty by a poet who employs understatement cleverly, and leaves the reader hungry but never disappointed. (Catherine Smith)

£7.00 - ISBN 1 904551 13 0

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The Elephant in the Corner by Aoife Mannix (p/back, Tall Lighthouse, £7) [FIVE STARS] is vivid, rich and eclectic. To that I’ll add funny (Karma Settee), touching (A Promise), insightful (I will survive). These are readable, relevant poems and emotionally diverse, moving from the hurt of a child not invited to a party to the rollicking good humour in ‘I’d make my home/ in the cave/ of your belly button’. (VG Lee, Diva)

Through a forest of imagery she leads the reader into her world. Aoife says something with every line; this makes her writing constantly exciting and involving. There is no poetic fill here, the pictures are packed in and then strung out. This effect gives the poems a pulse and a beat which lends itself to her thrilling live act. (John G Hall, Citizen 32)