Poems of Dorothy Molloy

Dorothy Molloy was a rising star in the literary world when her debut book, Hare Soup, was published in 2004. However, she died four days before advance copies arrived. The book was praised for its distinctive mix of comedy, dark humor, and disturbance, exploring corruption and abuse in private spaces. Her subsequent collection, Gethsemane Day, was prepared from typescript and published posthumously. The Poems of Dorothy Molloy collects her complete edition of poems, including her manuscript work and unpublished material, to meet the growing readership of this startling talent.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 296 pages
Publication date: 18 November 2021
Publisher: Faber & Faber

When Faber prepared Dorothy Molloy's debut Hare Soup (2004) for publication, she was a rising star in the making. However, tragedy struck, and she passed away four days before advance copies arrived. With its distinctive and unsettling mix of comedy and complicity, dark humor, and disturbance (a feminist burlesque that has seen her work christened as gurlesque), Hare Soup stripped the veneer from the niceties of relations in family life and the Catholic church, turning its inventive and sexually charged gaze to corruption and abuse in our most private spaces. The book rightly won accolades and admirers, and was followed by a further, posthumous collection, Gethsemane Day (2006) that was prepared from typescript.

The Poems of Dorothy Molloy gathers these two collections alongside her manuscript work, which appeared as Long-Distance Swimmer (Salmon, 2009), and the remaining body of unpublished material to present a complete edition of poems to meet the growing readership of this startling talent.

Weight: 334g
Dimension: 197 x 131 x 25 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780571348473
Edition number: Main