The Whole & Rain-domed Universe

The Whole & Rain-domed Universe is Colette Bryce''s much-anticipated follow-up to Self-Portrait in the Dark. The book presents the reader with an extraordinarily clear-eyed vivid and sometimes disturbing account of growing up in Derry during the Troubles with many ghosts both raised and laid to rest. The Whole & Rain-domed Universe is a riveting poetic document of the time; Bryce turns her clear singing line to darker ends than she has before describing not just the warmth and eccentricity of family and the claustrophobia of home-life but also the atmosphere of suspicion and the real and present threat of terrible violence. Bryce is one of the most widely acclaimed poets of the post-Heaney generation and this is her most directly personal and compelling work to date.