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New:
To Keep the Light Burning: Reflections at the time of loss
is published
by Salmon
( November 2008).
Foreword by Victoria Glendinning
This new book of poetry and prose was written to help to those experiencing loss and grief.
"These are writings for now, when many need a different way to express their loss (and may or may not choose a religious ceremony,) linked with the traditional ways we in Ireland cope with grief, and honour our dead," says Hartigan. "There is a universal need for ritual and ceremony."
Her new book To Keep The Light Burning, is a collection of personal prose and poems, many of which might be read aloud at funerals, burials or cremations, as well as privately by the individual reader to help cope with grief.
After an important friend of Anne Hartigan's died in August 2001, followed just days later by the atrocities of 9/11, she was so keenly aware of the depths of loss suffered that she decided to put together a collection of her poems and prose, with the aim of helping other people going through the trauma of bereavement and loss. "These two griefs became the force and energy that fuelled the making of this book".
"Several of these poems have already found their way into the hearts of the bereaved and have been found completely 'right'." Award-winning writer Victoria Glendinning.
Mark Patrick Hederman OSB (Glenstal Abbey) writes in the introduction, that this book "talks about death without flinching. It is not sentimental or sanctimonious. It gathers us around the emptiness and offers, calm, truthful, reassuring words, human and comforting."
To read more click here. You can buy this book online at Salmon
Books on writing - Clearing the Space
Short Stories - A Green and Mortal Sound
Clearing the Space:
A Why of Writing
Clearing the Space is a personal meditation on writing and creativity.
"It meditates on the needs and desires of those who - like Le Marquand Hartigan - try to make sense of life through creativity. Her view is from the particular perspective of women.
Le Marquand Hartigan explores
the need to be playful, how play gives space for the imagination to roam
freely. She says, 'play promotes freedom, engages the heart, and prevents
us taking ourselves too seriously...'"
To read a sample extract from Clearing the Space click
here.
You can view an online review of the book at bookviewireland.ie .
To purchase this book email: bookshop@salmonpoetry.com
By Anne Le Marquand Hartigan
Salmon publishing
R.r.p £ 4.99, ISBN 1 897648 92 8
A Green and Mortal Sound
Contemporary stories
by Irish Women Writers.
(Previously published
as Territories of the Voice.)
A green
and mortal sound
Previously
published as "Territories of the voice".
Edited and with an Introduction by Louise De Salvo, Kathleen Walsh D'Arcy
and Katherine Hogan.
Beacon Press Boston 1989
ISBN 0-8070-8355-0 (Softback)
www.beacon.org
"Pure
Invention" is a story of mine included in this collection. The editors
remarked that it was the only positive view of marriage that they found
among the stories they considered for the collection!
Anne Le M. Hartigan.
"We wanted to provide something of the range of literary styles being employed by Irish women today: the sharp, hilarious satire of a writer like Clare Boylan; the lyrical elegiac prose of a writer like Mary Lavin; the oral folk-tale quality of the work of Anne Le Marquand Hartigan" - From the Introduction.
Irish Spirit
Edited by Patricia Monaghan
"Irish Spirit explores the many ways in which thinking people today find spiritual inspiration in the Irish past."
This collection features Annes essay "Disillusion and Delight".
Irish Spirit
Wolfhound
Press, Dublin, Ireland.