Mary Oliver: A Thousand Mornings [2018] paperback PRENF first appeared in The Times

first appeared in The Times in January 1999

'The most brilliant and courageous Irish historian of his generation'

he goes into hiding on a small island in the Shannon Estuary where he waits in the hope of some day returning safely home

the voiceless and the dispossessed

Mary Oliver: A Thousand Mornings [2018] paperback PRENF first appeared in The TimesI go down to the shore in the morning and depending on the hour the waves are rolling in or moving out, and I say, oh, I am miserable, what shall what should I do? And the sea says in its lovely voice: Excuse me, I have work to do. Whether studying the leaves of a tree or mourning her treasured dog Percy, Mary Oliver is beautifully open to the teachings contained within the smallest of moments. In A Thousand Mornings she explores, with startling