Unportioned: New and Selected Short Poems

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"Ruth O'Callaghan's work is wide-ranging in subject and versatile in form. I particularly enjoy her meditative and humane poems on human relationships."Connie Bensley on Unportioned"These are poems that confront the worst that life has to show and tell us with a dedication to truths most of us never have the courage to face up to. Only a poet, and probably only a woman poet who has looked unflinchingly at the extremes of good and evil and yet retained faith in an ultimate good, could have written them."Anne Stevenson on Vortices"Sharp and compassionate, not in any easy general way, but through an understanding of what confronts us both in nature and our lives, the language beautifully heard, packed and measured."George Szirtes on An Unfinished Sufficiency