The Irish Literary Times

Authors Joseph O’Connor, Jo Baker, Niamh Boyce and Justin Cartwright on the importance and pitfalls of research

Today I'm talking to Fiona Bolger, author of  The Geometry of Love Between The Elements, the first Grimoire, from her publisher The Poetry Bus. Bolger's poetry is both exacting and sensual, I particularly loved the thematic coherence -  how geometry, love and the elements fit and flow between the covers - which leads to my first question...  

Welcome to the blog Fiona. The first thing that struck me about The Geometry of Love Between The Elements was how coherent it feels as a collection. Were the poems written very much as a collection, with the themes in mind, from start to finish?

I was swallowed by a Harry Clark window.   All that flesh. So exquisitely etched. Decked in magenta, Prussian, cobalt, lemon even the halos are mandarin. And, oh so sweet are those cool palms that ...