
Off Duty
This powerful new collection combines Katie Donovan''s unflinching insight into our human foibles with her exceptional descriptive gifts. The years of her late husband''s throat cancer are charted in poems by turns tender, harsh and darkly humorous. Donovan gives voice to the carer''s duty of being the one who watches, and contains, what is both a searing tragedy and a chainlink of domestic chores...
This powerful new collection combines Katie Donovan''s unflinching insight into our human foibles with her exceptional descriptive gifts. The years of her late husband''s throat cancer are charted in poems by turns tender, harsh and darkly humorous. Donovan gives voice to the carer''s duty of being the one who watches, and contains, what is both a searing tragedy and a chainlink of domestic chores...