"Naming Love is a collection of poetry that sings of love and mystery and the unknown as well as of solitude and loneliness and the quiet hours of reckoning. It’s a collection that loves the world through awestruck observation. It celebrates birds and weeds and the changing of the seasons. It laments loss of people and loss of nature. It tracks the changing of the seasons. It notices the little things in the everyday and makes them marvelous."—Jane Clarke
"Elegiac, unflinching, tender, Geraldine Mitchell’s poems in Naming Love are distinctly celebratory. Here are poems of luminous refuge enlivened by responsibility to difficulty and to undistorted report. . . . These poems will enrich the reader with their seeming ease, their timbres, their opening onto new, fresh knowledge of a world to which the reader, too, is given intimate presence."—Sean Borodale
Description
The poems in Naming Love celebrate birds and weeds and the changing of the seasons. They lament loss of people and loss of nature. They track the changing of the seasons and notice the little things in the everyday and make them marvellous. Elegiac, unflinching, tender, Geraldine Mitchell’s poems are luminous refuge enlivened by responsibility to difficulty and to undistorted report. Mitchell’s voice is both coastal and worldly, deeply engrained with locality at the edge of Ireland, and shows we must share together, make sense together. These poems will enrich the reader with their seeming ease, their timbres, their opening onto new, fresh knowledge of a world to which the reader, too, is given intimate presence.
About the Author
Geraldine Mitchell won the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award in 2008 and is widely published and anthologized. She is the author of several collections including Mute/Unmute, Mountains for Breakfast, and Of Birds and Bones. She has also written two novels for young readers and a biography.
January 2025