After Image, Mary Turley-McGrath's fine new collection, is structured like a triptych central to which are her rapt contemplations of her natural surroundings and above all her meditations on the lake she visits often in all weathers for consolation, hope and inspiration. In many of the poems in the other two parts,

she compassionately engages with historical disaster, displacement, personal loss and sorrow. Clearly aware of the darkness overshadowing the beauty of the natural world in our time, the poet confronts us with the full and paradoxical image of human experience.

Mary Turley-McGrath is from Mount Talbot on the Galway/Roscommon border; she now lives in Letterkenny She holds an M.Phil in Creative Writing from Trinity

College, Dublin and has published three collections of poetry: New Grass under Snow (Summer Palace Press, 2003), Forget the Lake (Arlen House, 2013), and Other Routes (Arlen House, 2016)

Mary is the winner of a number of national awards: Trócaire/Poetry Ireland Award, Francis Ledwidge Aware and the Annie Deeny Award through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and the Arts Council/An Comhairle Ealaíon. Her work has also been shortlisted in many competitions, including Cúirt and the Single Poem Competition at Listowel Writers' Week.

 Her poems have been published in numerous anthologies and in journals and newspapers including Poetry Ireland Review and The Irish Times, Her work has been broadcast on RTÉ1's Sunday Miscellany and she has given readings at Strokestown International Poetry Festival, Shorelines Poetry Festival, Clifden Arts Festival, Poetry Ireland and in the United Arts Club, Dublin.

 After Image is her fourth collection.