Mending the Skies: Poems

The poems in Mending the Skies illustrate the poet’s life, from her childhood in Ireland, where she was the eldest of ten children in a Catholic family, to her young womanhood as a nurse in England, to her adult years in America, where she is a wife and mother and poet. There is much to be said in Mending the Skies about love and loss, survival and journey, and a lot to be said about music. Throughout there is an Irish quality to the poems that reflects the poet’s heritage. The collection ends with her return, as a visitor, to the land of her birth.