Fetch Your Mother's Heart R. Cheran Irish Examiner

Irish Examiner

‘Address Book is peopled with lovers

A working-class boy brought up in a broken home on a council estate

one for each year the author worked in the mental health system

Fetch Your Mother's Heart R. Cheran Irish ExaminerA lesbian relationship tries to survive berzerk love, while rage swells in gas stations and living rooms around them; erupting into nationwide revolution. Set in Lebanon, this collection of poems studies the symbiotic relationship between tenderness and violence at every layer of the characters' lives, from intimacy to uprising. A fictionalised retelling of Luxxs time in Beirut during the current crisis as a British Syrian lesbian woman, the book is