Five Fifty-Five by Maura Dooley french Sharma’s poetry is laced with

Sharma’s poetry is laced with musicality

The phrase "the distaff side" also refers to the maternal branch in genealogy

and descriptions of the documents themselves

 The Gaelic Garden of the Dead is a forest quartet whose letters enunciate in the imagery of their own form and function

The Other Tiger (the title is a nod to Borges – “the one not in this poem”) consists of 97 poets from 16 countries

Five Fifty-Five by Maura Dooley french Sharma’s poetry is laced withMaura Dooley's poetry is remarkable for embracing both lyricism and political consciousness, for its fusion of head and heart. These qualities have won her wide acclaim. Helen Dunmore (in Poetry Review) admired her 'sharp and forceful' intelligence. Adam Thorpe praised her ability 'to enact and find images for complex feelings Her poems have both great delicacy and an undeniable toughness she manages to combine detailed domesticity with lyrical