Silk Work is the debut collection by Imogen Cassels, a Foyle Young Poet of the Year. Weaving multiple sources from literature, philosophy, visual art and history into ways of reading and documenting, the poems in Silk Work are an exercise in language's inbuilt, radiant futility, which is both its suffering and its joy.
Since she was a small child in scenic Rathdrum, Co. Wicklow Eithne Cavanagh has been fascinated by birds. From the day her mother showed her some tiny blue eggs lying in a nest in the hedge, birdsong has been a constant background music in her life. At school she started writing poems. Widely published, she has received many awards for her work.