Poem of the Week | April 28, 2014
Kerry Hardie: "Watching the Fire Take Your Body"
This week we feature a poem by Kerry Hardie from our current spring issue, 37.1. Hardie has published seven collections of poetry with The Gallery Press, Ireland. Her Selected Poems were published by Boodaxe Press, U. K., which will also publish her next collection in 2014. She has also written two novels, Hannie Bennett’s Winter Marriage (Harper Collins) and The Bird Woman (Little, Brown) and is currently working on a third. She has won many prizes, including the National Poetry Prize (Ireland) and the Lawrence O’Shaughnessy Award for Poetry, University of St Thomas, Minnesota.
Author’s note:
This poem is from a sequence of poems written after the death in Delhi, India, in January 2012 of my youngest brother, Paddy Jolley. Although baptized a Christian, Paddy was cremated in Delhi in accordance with Hindu funeral rites. He lived in Ireland but he knew and loved India and had worked there many times.
Watching the Fire Take Your Body
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