Erato Mary O'Donnell when the Council House was

when the Council House was being built and the statue of Queen Victoria still stood in Market Square

and his poetry

It takes the form of an extended annotated directory

but presumably didn't

wrestling with loneliness and uncertainty

Erato Mary O'Donnell when the Council House wasErato takes its title from the muse of lyric poetry. At the centre is an interrogation of the lyric as a vehicle to write the world, both the beauty and the horror. Drawing on documentary style narratives of her life, combined with lyric reinventions, Rees Jones asks questions about past, present and future, about the slippages of memory, all our errors and erasures, and the places we inhabit when processing trauma. It is a book full of flames and