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This collection is in two parts. The first, called ‘Saturn’s Little Colours’, is a mix of lyric, narrative and inspirational verse. Themes unite such very concrete facts as the 9/11 attack and financial failure with philosophical transcendence and triumphant death. Styles vary, but generally continue Máighreád’s concern with organic form. Saturn is a jailor, but there is a thrust towards release.
Part Two, ‘Flight’, is a requiem for the poet’s sister, who died suddenly and violently in 2006. Details of the death are not here; rather, the reader is given short, honest, emotional and philosophical responses, which culminate in the final poem, ‘Accompanied’. The last lines are:
‘… these tears are not made of water,
but of light, pattern, space, form
and are beautiful, because
everything natural is everything else.’
