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¡Divas! is a volume containing three collections. The poets, Máighreád Medbh, Nuala Ní Chonchúir and Deirdre Brennan, have each contributed 69 pages of poetry under separate titles and with individual introductions. Máighreád’s collection is entitled ‘Split’, and consists of 34 poems. The themes are marriage, its failure, the diversity of desire and the desperate search for connection.
‘She got out on a Sunday afternoon,
leaving bubbles to beat Everest in the sink.
Her two teenagers were out loitering
and her husband felling a precarious tree,
all due back by six.’
(from ‘The Orange Coat’)
