Polishing The Evidence Michael Billig A Weapon in the Struggle

A Weapon in the Struggle

pointed observations and musings on landscapes and seasons

the excerpt from Sara al-Jarwan’s novel Letters to my Lord the Sultan

the first book on Muldoon

Polishing The Evidence Michael Billig A Weapon in the StruggleIn Polishing the Evidence, Cecilia McGovern returns in many poems to her roots, as a child involved in the seasonal grind of farm work in Mayo. This closeness to earth is a reminder of the struggle for survival of previous generations, a struggle never referred to directly by anybody, that results for her in an ambivalent relationship with the landscape. The reticence about the past includes and is partly a consequence of the loss of the Irish