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Praise for Rachel Coventry's previous collection Afternoon Drinking in The Jolly Butchers:
"Coventry doesn't romanticize--her portraits do not eschew brutality--but neither does she condemn. In her first collection at least, Coventry is closer to Baudelaire than she is to the aforementioned quality armchairs; the title poem brings to brilliant life the world of people most polite society considers 'wasters'." - Kevin Higgins, The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies.
"I adored this distilled and spiky work... Coventry has a striking ability to mine the achingly bleak for cracking lines." - Jaki McCarrick, Poetry Ireland Review
Brief description: Rachel Coventry is a Galway-based poet and theorist. Her first collection Afternoon Drinking in the Jolly Butchers was published in 2018 by Salmon Poetry. Her poems have been published in many journals including The Rialto, The North, Stand, The Moth, The SHop, Poetry Ireland Review, and Abridged. She holds a doctorate in philosophy from The University of Galway. Bloomsbury will publish her monograph Heidegger and Poetry in the Digital Age: New Aesthetics and Technologies in 2023.