the elimination game

<p>Mary Mulholland's <em>the elimination game</em> is a candid sharply observed pamphlet that confronts ageing mortality and memory with wit lyric clarity and occasional surrealism. Moving between reflective lyric anecdotal sketches and formally playful pieces the poems interrogate the social narratives surrounding older women the shifting roles within families and the absurdities of late-life reinvention. Mulholland's voice is by turns defiant and tender intimate and ironic carving out a poetics of resilience that resists sentimentality while embracing emotional complexity.</p>