The language and structure of the poems allows readers to create their own interpretations of events and relationships. Never didactic and often leavened with wit, the poems occupy the liminal space between what's present and what lies beyond. Nevertheless, they are attentive in their range to such present-day realities as prostitution, prison and political deception. Forgiveness, they discover, may be found in time or place but we can only be '...certain that all is other in these uncertain times.'

Exploring the frailties of the human condition, the landscapes in which such frailties emerge, and their dire consequences.

About the Author

Ruth O'Callaghan, a Hawthornden Fellow, international competition adjudicator, interviewer, reviewer, editor, workshop leader and mentor, has published eleven full collections and a book of interviews with internationally eminent women poets. She hosts two poetry venues in London, whose ethos is to promote poetry's social dimension, enabling both the famous and unknown to read together with proceeds supporting two Cold Weather Shelters for the Homeless. She has compered and performed at poetry festivals in the UK and abroad, has read extensively in Asia, Europe and the USA, and collaborated with other disciplines and nationalities including women poets encountered on her Arts Council sponsored trip to Mongolia.

Reviews
'Where Shadow Falls' is a fabulous book with a poet who is on top form and a consummate purveyor of the 'craft or sullen art' of poetry. Ruth O'Callaghan is equally at ease with beautifully realised 'observational' poems and the philosophical, often mixing successfully the two. The personal and the political merge, coalesce and they are underlined with a poet whose sensibilities are wide ranging in their compassion and backlit by a wry, ironic humour that breaks through as the lucky reader experiences in a poetry book, laughter, tears and gasps of admiration. A stunning collection. - JACK CARADOC



Book Information
ISBN 9781915048080
Author Ruth O'Callaghan
Format Paperback
Page Count 80
Imprint Two Rivers Press
Publisher Two Rivers Press
Weight(grams) 111g