Kilkenny woman Anne Bevan launches her new book of poetry in city soon

A talented Kilkenny woman, living in the Rebel County has published her first book of poems which will be launched in Kilkenny city on Friday, September 28 at 7pm in Loughboy Library.
Anne Bevan took up writing at 50 years of age when she left kilkenny.
That was ten years ago and her first collection of poetry, titled Testament, has now been published by Lapwing Press.
She has had short stories published in The Holly Bough and Ireland’s Own Christmas annual and has also contributed a poem to a collection by Arachne Press.
Anne has also completed her first novel, for which she is currently seeking a publisher, and continues to write.
Anne’s poetry gets straight to the heart of the matter - whatever subject matter she alights upon.
Her words transport you on an inner journey of the mind and soul; you find yourself connecting willingly and easily with her as she lays bare her emotions.
This collection of her work embodies her talents as a fine poet.
Poet Kathy D’Arcy said of the work: “This collection is loud with female strength, the strength of women delivering babies into better futures, and of beautiful, monstrous fertility goddesses who deal death as carelessly as life.
“With her fine, raw, visceral lines, with her interrogation of the interplay of gentleness and brutality, Bevan finds a way to ‘weep a song’ for the past which is also a battle cry of survival.” he added.
from the book.