The Whole Thing by Michael Foley Joan Margarit McDermott’s poems root themselves firmly

McDermott’s poems root themselves firmly in the coastal landscapes of North Norfolk with a vivid and radical dialogue between nature

Goethe’s version of the scholar’s fateful wager with Mephistopheles inspires the central sequence of Faust

this collection offers an insight into mental illness as heartbreaking as Unica Zurn’s The Man of Jasmine or Leonora Carrington’s Down Below

It concerns herstory

Even if it's a Balloon

The Whole Thing by Michael Foley Joan Margarit McDermott’s poems root themselves firmlyEverything is connected. So, to understand anything one must understand everything. And so, when a 69 yearold man decides to comprehend the minutiae of an ordinary day it is necessary for him to understand his life also, which in turn entails understanding the history of the universe, though only from the Big Bang on. Michael Foley weaves together these three strands in the story of a transformation from youthful despising through mid life failure to