Praise for Geraldine Mills' poetry
When the Light contains 124 poems from Irish writer Geraldine Mills, selected from her six collections of poetry. alongside new unpublished poems, all demonstrating that she is one of the most distinctive voices to have emerged over the past forty years.
There is a tough survival ethic in this poetry. She creates pictures, outlines narratives of human interaction, of love and loss with a lean steadying style.
- Maurice Harmon on Unearthing Your Own
Geraldine Mills is a poet of considerable substance. She is quite
frankly astounding both in her craftsmanship, her vision and her
maturity. She is a highly gifted writer.
- Sheila O'Hagan on Toil the Dark Harvest
These quietly ambitious poems are replete with journeys at once
literal and emblematic, and with observances so attentively and
bracingly witnessed they startle on the page with their lived
immediacy and human resonance.
- Daniel Tobin on An Urgency of Stars
Beautiful poetry that spans an ocean. A friendship between two
poets is born and grows despite the distances in their lives.
Amazon review of The Other Side of Longing with Lisa C. Taylor
Bone Road is a great achievement, The words that run through the
sequence stitching it together are as simple and as piercing as the
tolling of a bell.
- Charles Fanning on Bone Road
Bone Road is a book-length collection of lyric poems engaged
with points where national and family history meet. Each poem is
a breath - of a human being, of a landscape, of hope, of return, of
a diaspora. It is a moving and beautifully crafted act of witness
- Eamonn Wall on Bone Road
Geraldine Mills is a poet and fiction writer from County Galway. Her poetry
collections are Unearthing Your Own (Bradshaw Books, 2001); Toil the Dark Harvest (Bradshaw Books, 2005); An Urgency of Stars (Arlen House, 2010); The Other Side of Longing (Arlen House, 2011); Bone Road (Arlen House, 2019); Bone Road in Word and Image (Arlen House, 2020). Her three short story collections, Lick of the Lizard (2005); The Weight of Feathers (2007) and Hellkite (2014) are also published by Arlen House. Her first children's novel, Gold, was published by Little Island in 2016, and its sequel, Orchard,
was published by Andrena Press in 2021.
A winner of the Hennessy/ Sunday Tribune New Irish Writer Award, she has been awarded three Arts Council Literature
Bursaries, an Arts Council Covid 19 Crisis Award, and an Arts Council Agility Award. She is also a recipient of a Katherine Kavanagh Fellowship.
She collaborated with New England poet, Lisa C. Taylor, on the joint collection The Other Side of Longing (Arlen House)
which was chosen as the Gerson Reading at the University of Connecticut in 2011. Her fiction and poetry have been on the curricula of contemporary literature courses at the University of Missouri, St Louis; Emory University, Georgia; University of Connecticut; Eastern Connecticut State University and Emerson College, MA, USA summer programme at the Burren College of Art. Her short story 'Pretty Bird, why you so sad?' has been featured on the state exams in Denmark.
When the Light: New and Selected Poems is her seventh poetry collection
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