The Wren, the Wren Enright Anne
The Wren, the Wren Enright Anne Nell McDaragh never knew her grandfather, the celebrated Irish poet Phil McDaragh. Restless and wryly self-assured, at twenty-two Nell leaves her mother Carmel's…
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The Wren, the Wren Enright Anne
Nell McDaragh never knew her grandfather, the celebrated Irish poet Phil McDaragh. Restless and wryly self-assured, at twenty-two Nell leaves her mother Carmel's orderly home to find her own voice as a writer (mostly online, ghost-blogging for an influencer) and to live a poetical life. But his love poems seem to speak directly to her.
In his poems to Carmel, Phil envisions his daughter as a bright-eyed wren ascending in escape from his hand. As she chases obsessive love, damage, and transcendence, in Dublin and beyond, her grandfather's poetry seems to guide her home.Nell's mother, Carmel McDaragh, knows the magic of her Daddo's poetry too well--the kind of magic that makes women in their nighties slip outside for a kiss and then elope, as her mother Terry had done. But it is Phil who departs, abandoning his wife and two young daughters.
Carmel struggles to reconcile "the