Lotus Gatherers Kayo Chingonyi with one eye on the

with one eye on the past and the other on the present

A remote townland in County Mayo

in the driving wind

and her Michael Marks nominated Bone Song

Lotus Gatherers Kayo Chingonyi with one eye on theAmali Rodrigos first collection is marked by a sense of being on a threshold between worlds. In South and East Asian religious symbolism, the lotus flower embodies the promise of purity and transcendence because it rises clear out of the muddy mire of its origins. It represents both abstract realms and the concrete phenomenal world. The lotus root is also an aphrodisiac. Whether these poems are concerned with relationships, customs and superstition,