Fierce scrow;
(phrase, native to North Clare);
an insatiable zest for work.
This debut pamphlet is available directly from Nine Pens Press or via your local independent bookshop.
Stephanie Sy-Quia
“In this pamphlet, we traverse an igneous landscape of rock and water, full of clefts. Lynch prises these open like bread, leaving the flames of myth and chosen elders to leap up into the air, to flicker quick and blue, to reveal them to be still singing, still blooming on the craggy edge, ‘weighted / with borrowed time.’ ”
Maria Sledmere
“Very quickly I found myself attuned to the ‘humming’ of Lynch’s wordplay, the way kin longing, geological time and the sensuous present converse in a weathering lyric. Fierce Scrow’s ‘troubled language’ blooms in the queer bodywork of these poems, their metamorphic ‘resilience’, their nomenclature of the intimate and lithic.”
Éadaoín Lynch’s debut pamphlet Fierce Scrow contends with the earthy and the elemental.
Taking the reader through the beautiful and bleak Burren landscape, these poems reflect place as a memory, from ancient ruins to lost connections to placenames themselves.
With adept shifts in tone and language, Lynch plays with a postcolonial inheritance and a queer resistance, showing a keen awareness of their heritage and their legacy – ‘Living between one bow stroke and the next.’
