The Blue Cocktail by Audrey Molloy Tapsalteerie poetry by Black feminist and

poetry by Black feminist and arguments for the right to remain child-free

Swims cuts a path through Britain's waterways investigating the lasting human effect on nature and nature's unmistakable effect on us

“ - Fred D’Aguiar

Her poems delight in the lush mess of actual life

The book seeks to address historic and ongoing failures by the publishing industry to fairly represent the Gypsy

The Blue Cocktail by Audrey Molloy Tapsalteerie poetry by Black feminist andAudrey Molloys collection, The Important Things, was shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize. Stephen Sextons citation noted, In this striking, moving, bold debut, Audrey Molloys poems move between Ireland and Australia, parenthood and daughterhood, and the sensual worlds of the body, its attendant desires and intensities. Beyond these essential forces, The Important Things, in all its formal elegance, is a book of grief too.