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“On the western shore of Lake Turkana” and other poems by MONICA CORISH
September 11, 2020
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Margaret O'Brien
Posted in Uncategorized, Poetry, Literature, Nature, Trasna, Ireland
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Before a neck injury in 2005 Irish poet Monica Corish spent many years travelling, living and working in Africa. Based now in Co. Leitrim, in her poems here Corish brings the reader from the sublime beauty of a night spent on a mountaintop near Lokichokio in northern Kenya in her…
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