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Revenant is Clare McCotter’s second book of poems. Written within arm’s reach of a cemetery wall, the collection inhabits a hinterland where bones, real and metaphorical, slip their graves. In these physical and metaphysical landscapes there is no quest for closure. Wounds and graves stay open – resolution is out of the question. Navigating sound waves and cartographies of wind the dead come and they go, their bone constellations glimmering in the townlands of County Derry, the bogs of County Meath, the sands of Shelling Hill Beach and the Atacama Desert.Although clearly preoccupied with the un-historied lives of women buried in that local cemetery, the collection is not rooted in a specific place. It meanders through a range of dark geographies, connecting sad, settled, unruly, elusive, and desperately fragmented bones. In these liminal spaces revenants mingle without hierarchy or the wakeful bones of Elizabeth Siddal and Pablo Neruda are exhumed with those of a woman buried without obsequies in County Derry during the 1960s. The young bones of Gaza City move within earshot of those from Dachau and Bergen-Belsen. Housed in a silver reliquary, the bones in Mary Magdalene’s foot long for the dark mineral ground while an old groom dreams that Shergar’s remains will be brought home so that he can make them lovely for the earth. The bones of people from Antrim, Armagh and Tyrone who were disappeared during The Troubles speak with those who vanished under the Pinochet dictatorship, and were found years later out there where they have measured the age of the oldest star and spread a thousand red carnations across the desert’s frozen floor.     These Salmon Poetry books have come into us unused and unopened but due to the storage in their last location they might have some scuffs or marks on the edges of the pages

Is breá le Dainín an zú. Tá oiread ainmhithe le feiceail ann -agus oiread bealaí éagsúla acu le bogadh thart! Beidh páistí réamhscoile meallta ag na carachtair áille.Leabhair chairtchláir – breá láidir do na daoine beaga! Níl mórán béime leagtha ar fhoilseacháin réamhscoile ag foilsitheoirí Gaeilge – tá an-éileamh ar leabhair den chineál seo. Is é stiúrthóir Futa Fata, Tadhg Mac Dhonnagáin, a scríobh na leabhair seo. Tá cúlra láidir aige sa réimse réamhscoile. D’oibrigh sé mar mhúinteoir bunscoile, ag múineadh naíonáin bheaga, chuir sé clár réamhscoile, ‘Dilín o Deamhas’ i láthair ar RTÉ. Tá an-mheas ar shaothar an mhaisitheora Steve Simpson – obair na gcapall déanta aige do Futa Fata, Séideán Sí agus eile in Éirinn, Scholastic i Meiriceá agus foilsitheoirí eile I Sasana agus eile. Danny loves to visit the Zoo. There are so many animals to see - and they all move in so many different ways! Futa Fata founder and director, Tadhg Mac Dhonnagáin, who created this new series has a strong background in pre-school,having worked as a primary school teacher, teaching junior infants, and presenting the pre-school TV show ‘Dilín o Deamhas’ on RTÉ many years ago. He had a big publishing success with Gugalaí Gug, the book/CD of traditional rhymes that was awarded a gold disc in 2011. Steve Simpson is a highly-respected illustrator, already familiar to an Irish readership through his workwith Futa Fata, An Gúm and others. Further afield, he has been published in the US by Scholastic. Lovable engaging characters draw pre-schoolers in. Sturdy board books – virtually indestructible! *** These little boardbooks are tough so will last and have engaging characters your child will love. Woman's Way