Kelly’s poetry gives voice to the ordinary,everyday lives of Irish women. She writes out of her own experience as a woman, wife, mother, nurse, farmer, and feminist who over the past fifty years has been an astute witness to the narrow confines of home and the limitations imposed by Irish society on women.
"A Last Loving offers readers a corpus of rich, nuanced, and intensely personal poetry, testifying to the diverse experiences of Irish women who frequently navigated adverse social conditions."—Breac: A Digital Journal of Irish Studies
June 2016
