Pillow Talk (Gallery Books)

This 74 page book contains more than forty of Paula Meehan's poetry. Meehan, Ireland's Professor of Poetry, has dedicated much of her work to an exploration of the lives of the oppressed and the marginalized in society. Her poems are sensual both in her handling of ideas and in her handling of the words which convey those ideas. An essential strand of her work is feminism. The poems in "Pillow Talk" are technically proficient, serious in the questions they address, and never didactic or humourless.