Guarding the Flame (Paperback, New)

Taking its title from the myth surrounding St. Bridgid's flame in Kildare, Guarding the Flame takes us on a journey through familiar and unfamiliar lands, from Ireland, to Europe and Asia, and finally the country where Majella Cullinane currently resides, New Zealand. Her poems explore nature and dreams, real and imagined people, and the power of history and myth. The concept of home and the feeling of otherness, of belonging and unbelonging are punctuated with intimate observations on love, childhood and motherhood; the small moments that make us what we are, and the possibility of reinventing oneself.