Erato Mary O'Donnell the limits of human frustration

the limits of human frustration and patience

and his poetry

a chapter from Hassan Nasr’s Return to Dar al-Basha (the novel will be published by Syracuse later this year)

when the Council House was being built and the statue of Queen Victoria still stood in Market Square

My mother came in at one point

Erato Mary O'Donnell the limits of human frustrationErato takes its title from the muse of lyric poetry. At the centre is an interrogation of the lyric as a vehicle to write the world, both the beauty and the horror. Drawing on documentary style narratives of her life, combined with lyric reinventions, Rees Jones asks questions about past, present and future, about the slippages of memory, all our errors and erasures, and the places we inhabit when processing trauma. It is a book full of flames and