What Willow Says Mairide Woods and yet how she laughed

and yet how she laughed when climbing onto the roof in men’s clothing to throw bricks

The narrator endures the company of both pathetic and incorrigible characters while struggling to reconcile her idealization of The Modern Marriage with the painful reality of life with a philandering husband

As the collection progresses

six poems from Interments

Judith Kazantzis proves herself again to be the constant sister of invention and imagination

What Willow Says Mairide Woods and yet how she laughedWinner of The Barbellion Prize 2021 Sharing stories of myths, legends and ancient bogs, a deaf child and her grandmother experiment with the lyrical beauty of sign language. Learning to communicate through their shared love of trees they find solace in the shapes and susurrations of leaves in the wind. A poignant tale of family bonding and the quiet acceptance of change.