Life Under Water by Maura Dooley novel in verse Watching beauty and disintegration through

Watching beauty and disintegration through the lens of the film camera and the eye of the poet

Stevie is eleven and loves reading and sea- creatures

'A lovely book

 a woman diagnosed with ‘Housewife Psychosis’ recounts her dreams to Freud

They call on us to remember ourselves as the animals we are

Life Under Water by Maura Dooley novel in verse Watching beauty and disintegration throughMaura Dooleys poetry is remarkable for embracing both lyricism and political consciousness, for its fusion of head and heart. These qualities have won her wide acclaim. Helen Dunmore (in Poetry Review) admired her sharp and forceful intelligence. Adam Thorpe praised her ability to enact and find images for complex feelingsHer poems have both great delicacy and an undeniable toughnessshe manages to combine detailed domesticity with lyrical beauty, most