Bücher von Jean Andrews

No Immediate Remedy is a collection of poems written during the first two years of the Covid pandemic, in that disconcerting and eerie inward space created by lockdowns and social distancing. The sense of loss and isolation imposed by the pandemic, and the grieving, is represented in the opening section. This is followed by a commentary on the early months of the invasion of Ukraine viewed through the lens provided by images and snippets on Twitter. The closing section provides responses to a series of events that took place in the United States over the course of that same Spring and Summer, some of these also devastating.

Her Fated Place is a poem in four chapters telling the story of a young woman from the West of Ireland who makes her way from domestic service on an Irish landed estate to the sophistication of post-World War II Rome and its expatriate community via the London Blitz. Along the way she is exposed to the prevailing debates of the times, on religious sectarianism and piety, fascism, communism and tyranny, post-war guilt and triumphalism, all the while keeping her own counsel and coming to a surprising but not unexpected conclusion of her own in the end.