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Nessa O'Mahony - Rationed

from A Silent War by Ross Thompson And Others

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Written by Ross Thompson

Read by Nessa O'Mahony

Nessa O’Mahony is a Dublin-born poet. She has published five books of poetry – Bar Talk, appeared (1999), Trapping a Ghost (2005), In Sight of Home (2009), Her Father’s Daughter (2014), and The Hollow Woman on the Island, published by Salmon in May 2019.

Nessa won the National Women’s Poetry Competition in 1997 and was shortlisted for the Patrick Kavanagh Prize and Hennessy Literature Awards. She was awarded an Arts Council of Ireland literature bursary in 2004, 2011 and 2018. She lives in Rathfarnham, Dublin, with her husband, the videographer, Peter Salisbury.

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And before we knew,
we were waiting in queues
for entry into stores of depleting

groceries: home baking aisles picked
entirely clean, shelves of tinned goods already
resource stripped by a plague of frenzied

locusts with an all-you-can-eat philosophy...

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from A Silent War, released May 29, 2020

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Ross Thompson Bangor, UK

Northern Irish writer.

Debut collection Threading The Light available now from Dedalus Press.

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