The Woman With An Owl Tattoo: Chapbook

This life-affirming poetry collection reflects on the authors growth since the ending of her marriage and what it means to unearth ones true sexual orientation in mid-life. Anne Walsh Donnellys intimate exploration of sexuality and identity is both brave and touching marking this debut collection as a triumph.; Anne Walsh Donnelly is by far the most daring poet to emerge in Ireland of late. The starkly honest and overt sexuality which pervades Annes poetry make the work of pretty much all her contemporaries appear repressed and backward-looking in comparison. This publication would certainly have been banned in the Ireland of the past. Indeed she is one of the few poets around whose work has the glorious ability to get moralistic supposedly liberal eyebrows twitching. Annes poems are pretty perfectly formed hand grenades which she tosses about the place with abandon while maintaining a deadpan face. I think this publication is the beginning of something great. Kevin Higgins author of Song of Songs 2.0: New & Selected Poems (Salmon Poetry 2017).