Playing the Octopus: ENGLISH DICTIONARIES back to a home to

back to a home to which she never wants to return

Reverend Paula Grant has been patiently waiting for God to send her someone to share her life

radical voices at the margins and the grassroots are disrupting the status quo

Bright and beautiful photography

there was no sun… she had been strangled

Playing the Octopus: ENGLISH DICTIONARIES back to a home toMary O Malleys ninth collection moves between two landscapes, that of the West of Ireland and the East coast of America. The first section opens with an elegy for a poet and moves through the familiar geography of a house and its hinterland, and ends with a celebration of the redemptive power of music, one of two motifs that run through the book. The second section examines what happens when the poet finds herself Nel mezzo del camin in a changed