The Solace of Artemis by Paula Meehan Roald Dahl the working-class artist

the working-class artist

“every bit of loving going out there

”  – Will Barrett

Someday There Will be Machine Shops Full of Roses looks back on fifty years of working on machine-shop floors up and down the West Coast – the noise and the silence

The Solace of Artemis by Paula Meehan Roald Dahl the working-class artistPatterns and patterning cellular, celestial, social, political and personal spin and weave through Paula Meehans new collection of poems. From the mythic to the mundane, her attention is given over to the examination of interconnected lives her own, the lives of her family, the human ecology of her native Dublin. As well as a decades worth of new poems, The Solace of Artemis and integrates her sequence Museum (2019), commissioned for the Dublin