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Fox Trousers / Eithne Hand

Fox Trousers

By: Eithne Hand

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In these playful, considered poems, the emotional impacts of small moments are captured in a relaxed and natural way. Verbal gymnastics and powerful metaphors are laid down in spare, lively words.  This confident first collection from a writer who has worked primarily in the world of sound combines accessible language with lyricism and an ear tuned to nature.  I have always admired people wit...
ISBN 978-1-912561-92-6
Pub Date Tuesday, December 01, 2020
Cover Image © Roeselien Raimond www.roeselienraimond.com
Page Count 66
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In these playful, considered poems, the emotional impacts of small moments are captured in a relaxed and natural way. Verbal gymnastics and powerful metaphors are laid down in spare, lively words.  This confident first collection from a writer who has worked primarily in the world of sound combines accessible language with lyricism and an ear tuned to nature. 


I have always admired people with ideas and flair and imagination. Eithne Hand has it all. This first book of her poetry is a fresh new voice and for me paints so many wonderful pictures. 
Kathleen Watkins


Fox Trousers sparkles with an inimitable mix of wit and wisdom. Eithne Hand’s poems of close observation surprise and delight, moving from playfulness to tenderness and from the mundane to the mysterious in the space of a breath. In the music of her lines, as in our lives, joy and grief live side by side.  
Jane Clarke


Eithne Hand is wary of the ‘love of mirrored self’. Instead her poems look outward, generously and wittily to the loving father of a focus-puller, to a man clutching his double bass and other men clutching their penises, to a pencil’s humility, Saint-Saens’ insides, a ‘magnificent’ woman scrubbing by hand, to what an atlas, a coastal rock, or a lemon waiting to be squeezed might like us to know; a mare with her foal reminds us of loss, a playground swing of acceptance and a dog teaches us joy. Which, more than anything, is what this collection is – a joy. 
Gerard Stembridge

Eithne Hand

Eithne Hand is a writer and radio producer from Greystones, Co.Wicklow. Tickle is her second collection of poetry published by Salmon. Her first collection Fox Trousers was published in 2020. Her work has been published in Southword, Crannóg, The Irish Times, The Moth and Poetry Ireland Review. She wrote and directed three radio plays broadcast on RTÉ Radio 1 and her documentary, Voicejazz, won a Prix Italia for Best Work on Music. She was Head of RTÉ Radio 1 from 2003 to 2006. She produced Gay Byrne’s Sunday Jazz programme for the final four years. In theatre, she produced the one man shows The Man In The Woman’s Shoes and I Hear You and Rejoice, written and performed by Mikel Murfi. From 2014 to 2017 Eithne was the curator of the First Thought strand of the Galway International Arts Festival. She is currently the participating poet in Songlines – a Festival in a Van project bringing together artists and people living with dementia and cognitive impairment. She is also a freelance radio drama director for Drama on One (RTÉ Radio 1). She spends her time between Greystones and Ballinafad, County Sligo.




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