Given all the authors in Town & Country are Irish there should be no surprise at various common themes running through many of the poems: the city, the countryside etc. And, given this is collection contains twenty stories by twenty different authors, it is not something I would normally comment on in any detail (or perhaps at all).
But in this case I just want to call out one of the stories, that written by Mary Costello – “Barcelona” – which is one of the most remarkable insights into what it means to be a woman I have ever read. Wonderful stuff!
Ian Gouge - Writer 