Mercy by Róisín Kelly John Irons William Bedford’s The Dancers of

William Bedford’s The Dancers of Colbek explores his own early years among the market towns and seacoasts of Lincolnshire

What results is a series of beautiful

The collection’s title points to the underlying philosophy expressed in these poems: that earthly joy is

This is writing as an act of community

Mercy by Róisín Kelly John Irons William Bedford’s The Dancers ofIreland. Night. A grotto to the Virgin Mary illuminates a deserted road. Overhead, the soundless roar of the Milky Ways glittering traffic reminds us of a past that runs parallel to our own uncertain times. Olives ripen in a Portuguese valley. The sound of gunfire approaches a Paris caf. Irish women revolutionaries march towards their future. Tigers prowl through County Leitrim's rural townlands, whose old names emerge like neon signposts from the