Rope of Sand by Fiona Larkin Tara Bergin all the protagonists earn our

all the protagonists earn our sympathy

erotic desire

Her subjects here are grief and love

— Harry Boston

Rope of Sand by Fiona Larkin Tara Bergin all the protagonists earn ourIn a compelling, nuanced debut, Fiona Larkin scrutinises instability and asks what we hold onto, and what we let go. Her poems, delicate and tough, consider the shifting relationships in couples, between parent and child, how a friendship is formed and broken. She searches for those languages and registers we remember, and how we might lose them, and the place of the spiritual when faith, like the tide, recedes. Sand is always equivocal, unreliable,