Storm Damage Maxim Znak emerges as a vessel for

emerges as a vessel for liberation

"Marvin Bell may have the most refined ear of his free verse contemporaries

sheltering her from the weather of her mother’s mental illness and a pressurized suburban atmosphere

age twelve

"Fifty-five years seperate the oldest from the youngest poet which makes a gratifying sense of an evolving

Storm Damage Maxim Znak emerges as a vessel forStorm Damage weaves personal, historical and mythological threads to create a book that recognises and celebrates the power of words, not least in times of personal and collective challenge. Whether charting the events of her own family life or responding to records in Dublins North Inner City Folklore Collection, the poems and songs contained here have the shadow, and occasionally the light, of history cast over them. For a book in which the word