Those April Fevers

This vibrant collection, building on the rich strengths of The Ark Builders, serves as a generous introduction to Mary O'Donnell's work to those yet to discover her expansive visions and powerful voice.

Intergalactic, these poems travel from outer space via the moon to coffee tables at a luxuriously considered pace. In doing so they crackle with precision, dance between love and horror, curiosity and wonder. The narrators are as diverse as their subjects, their tones ranging through wry, wistful, lusty and political. There is surrealism here, a world turned upside down by climate change, newly-charged mythologies that shake what we thought we understood about the order of things, and our relationships. Mary O’Donnell has published five previous poetry collections, the most recent – The Ark Builders (2012) – from Arc, as well as three novels and two collections of short fiction.