The Silvering

Maura Dooley's poetry is remarkable for embracing both lyricism and political consciousness, for its fusion of head and heart. These qualities have won her wide acclaim. The Silvering is her first new collection since Life Under Water, which was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize in 2008. Looking in, looking out, and looking through are the recurring perspectives offered by these poems. These are poems interested in shifting light and what it reveals, reflects or conceals, and especially in what remains caught in the silvering'.