Grace Notes | 
pickThis is a collection of poetry about the Irish Pirate Queen Grace O‘Malley. Liston has two types of poems in this collection. The first is a compositional poem meant to be a fragment from Grace‘s life. The second type is a ‘rescued poem‘. For these she has two source texts about Grace and uses the words to create a new poem. These ones are less explicitly about Grace‘s life but follow the themes of her life. (Cont. in comments 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻)
i.z.booknook (1) I really enjoyed this collection. So much of Grace‘s historical memory is preserved through poetry so it is nice that that tradition is continued here. Something about her legend lends itself to poetry. Liston did a beautiful job of recreating the emotion and atmosphere of the tales. 1mo
i.z.booknook (2) They‘re organised chronologically too so you truly feel like you‘ve been on the emotional journey of her life. This collection is clearly thoroughly researched too and it‘s nice that Liston has drawn in other sources on Grace to recreate her memory. Really enjoyed this. 1mo
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