Publisher's Synopsis
Maura Dooley's poetry is remarkable for embracing both lyricism and political consciousness, for its fusion of head and heart. Helen Dunmore (in Poetry Review) admired her 'sharp and forceful' intelligence. Adam Thorpe praised her ability 'to enact and find images for complex feelings…Her poems have both great delicacy and an undeniable toughness…she manages to combine detailed domesticity with lyrical beauty, most perfectly in the metaphor of memory ' (Literary Review). Explaining Magnetism was Maura Dooley's first full-length collection, including poems from two earlier short collections, Ivy Leaves & Arrows (1986) and Turbulence (1988).
