The Year of Not Dancing (Hardcover)

This collection is dedicated to the author's mother, who died when he was eleven. Her death becomes the focus for a poignant but unsentimental exploration of family relationships and legacies across three generations. Poised between past and present, between growing up in a small town in the Glens of Antrim and the worlds of adulthood and parenthood in London. The Year of Not Dancing explores the bonds of family and belatedly seeks to come to terms with loss through the redemptive power of memory and love. This tender, candid, and beautifully crafted collection confirms Dallat as one of the most exciting voices in Irish poetry.