G.E. Stevens
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‘Mandrake and Scammony’: on the poems of Dorothy Molloy
G.E. Stevens No more wavering… Burn through the parochial states of mind. Cut and burn away to the truth. This is Dorothy Molloy’s credo, found in one of her late notebooks and published at the start of The Poems of Dorothy Molloy (2019), a collected edition assembled by Faber and Molloy’s widower,…
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A poem by G.E. Stevens
The Roseland Peninsula Tell me now – how often do we live in our own description? (Charles Tomlinson) Looking west, the hill has no house so you imagine one. Curved stone lintels. A deep-set door where you’d expect. Outside, an unassuming car with cassette tapes in the glovebox and on…