The Speculations of Country People av Majella Kelly

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<p><b>The astonishing poetry debut exploring hidden histories, mythical landscapes and self-discovery in the face of limits on women''s bodily autonomy<br></b><br>In 2017, the presence of a mass grave was confirmed in a disused sewage system in Tuam, County Galway. In it were the bodies of infants - wards of the Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home, where from 1925 to 1961 the children of unmarried women were sent to live their lives in the care of nuns. Their deaths were the result of a conservative culture which, under the influence of the Church, took a prurient interest in women''s private lives and bodies.<br><br>In <i>The Speculations of Country People</i>, her hauntingly lyrical debut collection, Majella Kelly reckons with that legacy. She traces the journeys of women in our own day, from controlling relationships to sexual reawakening and new happiness. The speculations of the title are in part those of gossip, the chatter of small communities everywhere; but they are also those of