Hymn to the Reckless by Erin Fornoff Barbican Press often drawn from the molten

often drawn from the molten core of childhood

Capturing the chaotic rhythms of these young lives in vivid yet unsentimental prose

explores how we can be fully alive in language even in the depths of sorrow

’ Elizabeth Garrett

cats and dogs

Hymn to the Reckless by Erin Fornoff Barbican Press often drawn from the moltenHymn to the Reckless, the debut collection of poems by American born Erin Fornoff, traces an arc from youthful adventures in the Appalachian mountains to a confrontation with lifes complexities, not least in the radically transformed America of recent times. Moving between that America and her present 'Home from Home in Ireland, Fornoff finds a kind of consolation in community, while struggling to bridge the ever widening gap between what is and what