Bad Summer by Patricia McCarthy
Dare-Gale Press
Published 31st July 2025.
A much-loved home is sold and becomes strange; a wedding ring that has to be cut off leaves its dent on the finger. The intimate, painful realities of love being lost and yet lingering are revealed in Patricia McCarthy's searingly honest poems.
“Deeply personal, these poems make you gasp at their unflinching honesty, and praise their universal truths, to which every reader can relate. Patricia McCarthy's poems are a standard bearer for what is best in lyric poetry; her skill holds the power, always, to surprise and astonish. This is an important sequence, by an accomplished poet.” Eleanor Hooker On Patricia McCarthy's Whose hand would you like to hold
“There”s real power and beauty here, disturbance and menace and lovely lines. A substantial collection that combines craft and passion.” Michael Longley
A much-loved home is sold and becomes strange; a wedding ring that has to be cut off leaves its dent on the finger. The intimate, painful realities of love being lost and yet lingering are revealed in Patricia McCarthy's searingly honest poems.
“Deeply personal, these poems make you gasp at their unflinching honesty, and praise their universal truths, to which every reader can relate. Patricia McCarthy's poems are a standard bearer for what is best in lyric poetry; her skill holds the power, always, to surprise and astonish. This is an important sequence, by an accomplished poet.” Eleanor Hooker On Patricia McCarthy's Whose hand would you like to hold
“There”s real power and beauty here, disturbance and menace and lovely lines. A substantial collection that combines craft and passion.” Michael Longley
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