Description
Dancing With Memory is a ballroom of memory for poet Rachael Hegarty’s mother, who lives with Alzheimer’s Disease.
“Rachael Hegarty’s Dancing With Memory is a unique suite of poems- and of dances- where a parent’s dissipating memories are renewed and re-coloured in vivid, tender and honest verses that span a lifetime. Shot through with love, these poems not onlt recreate memories slipping away from a mother afflicted with dementia, but grow into a social portrait of Irish working class life over the past century through a mosaic of memories… It is beautifully rendered tribute to a woman whose dance card in life was always full: a compassionate collection that conjures its own soundtrack, culled from a well-lived life.” – Dermot Bulger