By Leland Bardwell

Different Kinds of Love

Reissue of classic story collection by one of the senior figures in Irish writing.
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Fiction, Prose

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Poet Leland Bardwell’s keen-eyed, unflinching short stories, were originally published in 1987, and deal with a range of topics of considerable relevance to readers in our own difficult times. As fresh and relevant as when they first appeared, these stories, like Bardwell’s poetry, record what Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin has called “the shocks of our time, the private impacts and the historic changes”.

“Bardwell brings a poet’s eye to observation, her words revealing small hurs and betrays wherever she looks … In these beautifully evoked stories Bardwell inhabits the stretch of alienated lives, waiting for things to get better.” — Books Ireland


ISBN 9781906614515 Paperback
128 pp, 216 x 140 mm / 5.5″ x 8.5″
Feb 2012

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About The Author

Author

Leland Bardwell was born in India, grew up in Leixlip and was educated in Dublin with extra mural studies in London University. She has published five novels, most recently Mother to a Stranger which was a bestseller in translation in Germany, while her early novel The House was recently issued in their classic series by Blackstaff Press. Numerous radio plays and stories have been broadcast on RTÉ radio and her stage plays include The Life of Edith Piaf. Her most recent poetry collection is The Noise of Masonry Settling (Dedalus, 2006). Her memoir, A Restless Life, appeared in 2008 from Liberties Press. The recipient of the Marten Toonder Award in 1993, and the Dede Korkut Short Story Award from Turkish PEN in 2010, she was one of the four co-editors of the long-running literary magazine, Cyphers, and a co-founder of the Scríobh literary festival in Sligo where she lived for many years. A member of Aosdána, Leland Bardwell died in June 2016, aged 94. REVIEW EXCERPTS "She is the doyenne of women poets writing in English. Her work has humour and wit... It has the immediacy of personal conversation, yet is crafted with care for form. She makes something extraordinary of 'ordinary' experience". — Irish Press "Leland Bardwell's poetry is witty, full of sharp, intimate honesty, full of truth and surprises. She is a poet who has felt the shocks of our time, the private impacts and the historic changes" — Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin