The Shark Nursery

Shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry 2025 Shortlisted for the Farmgate Café National Poetry Award 2025 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 o