{"product_id":"dodder-daughter","title":"Dodder Daughter","description":"\u003cp\u003e*They say when you turn sixty\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eyou become invisible.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTry sixty millennia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof rising, trickling,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eflowing, spurting,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecurving bank sides*\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTurning sixty and recovering from major surgery in the spring of 2024, \u003cstrong\u003eNessa O’Mahony\u003c\/strong\u003e returned to her beloved local river, the Dodder. As healing progressed, O’Mahony’s fascination for the river grew and she conceived of a plan, not only to map out its trajectory from source to sea, but to imagine a voice and personality for the river that has curved through south Dublin for millennia. That ambition grew into a wider exploration of the feminine in all its cycles, seen through the shifting dynamics of mother-daughter relationships and the wider landscape, and a growing sense of what is encroaching, what is at stake and what may be lost. The resulting poems brim with humane feeling, but also with a sardonic quiet wit that makes such moments clearly hard won.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58343098646910,"sku":"NW9781915022936","price":11.45,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/dodder-daughter","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}