Fallen by Audrey Molloy
The Gallery Press
Published 1st October 2025.
"Wives are afraid of me now.' From the opening line of Fallen there is a sense of danger and intimacy. In her latest and most risqué collection Audrey Molloy asks: What makes a good person? What does it mean to be a fallen woman? And can she ever redeem herself? "You are one side of an abyss. Everything decent, the other.' Among an inventive repertoire of forms Fallen is laced with a series of poems that convey the thoughts and confusion of a woman in crisis. Expanding its vision to track the fallen woman through history, religion and myth Fallen offers better endings for some of the tragic heroines of novel and opera for whom Audrey Molloy speaks. While the poems mine the exquisite pain, joy and persistent guilt of an illicit love affair and expose post-separation social opprobrium at the core of this collection is the most tender of love stories. "And then a skylight opened for each of us.'
"Wives are afraid of me now.' From the opening line of Fallen there is a sense of danger and intimacy. In her latest and most risqué collection Audrey Molloy asks: What makes a good person? What does it mean to be a fallen woman? And can she ever redeem herself? "You are one side of an abyss. Everything decent, the other.' Among an inventive repertoire of forms Fallen is laced with a series of poems that convey the thoughts and confusion of a woman in crisis. Expanding its vision to track the fallen woman through history, religion and myth Fallen offers better endings for some of the tragic heroines of novel and opera for whom Audrey Molloy speaks. While the poems mine the exquisite pain, joy and persistent guilt of an illicit love affair and expose post-separation social opprobrium at the core of this collection is the most tender of love stories. "And then a skylight opened for each of us.'
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