Saturday, March 23rd, 2013, 2pm, FREE
Galways City Museum
Salmon Poetry invites you to the Galway
launch of The God Thing, the new collection of poetry by Susan Millar DuMars. The book will be launched by Reverend Canon
Maureen Ryan. Everyone is
welcome.
Maureen Ryan has lived most of her adult
life in Galway. She has published two novels and over 400 academic papers,
essays, sermons, meditations and reflections. She is a psychologist, a Priest
in the Church of Ireland and a Canon in the National Cathedral of St. Patrick’s,
Dublin.
In The God Thing, Susan Millar DuMars
writes with compassion and clarity about the terminal illness and death of a
family member, and her own resulting struggle to keep faith and love alive
within herself. The poems question and rage, and find unexpected moments
of humour and buoyancy. DuMars looks for God in the stories of the
Bible’s women; in the transcendent paintings of Matisse and the soulful images
of Hopper; in the transience of cities, the memory of mountains, the freedom of
water and the spilt sugar stars in the sky. An excavation of grief which
unearths, if not the Divine, then hope – as necessary and fragile as our next
breath.
For more about The God Thing http://www.salmonpoetry.com/details.php?ID=286&a=39
