Afternoon Drinking at the Jolly Butchers

Beginning in East London, this debut collection makes its way back to Ireland and also moves from troubled youth to adulthood. Drawing on quantum mechanics, myth, religion, and philosophy to fragment its perspective and to tell and retell its stories. It is at once bewitched yet bored, honest yet paradoxical. At its heart, it is a meditation on relationship, interrogating memory, regret, and loss. The poems spin through various worlds and world-views but come home to the streets of Galway. A stunningly original and thoughtful voice is unveiled in this collection. Rachel Coventry was born in Edinburgh to an Irish mother and a Scottish father. Since then she has moved back and forth over the Irish Sea seven times. She is now almost settled in Galway, where she is studying for a doctorate in Heidegger's poetics at NUIG.