In Mary Corkery’s second poetry collection, these richly realized poems explore the joy and pain of living in an unjust world. A Sobeys parking lot becomes hallowed ground. A displaced Eve stands up to an authoritarian God. The sons of refugees paint Eden on Dundas Street.
Like the titular flower, striking for its orange, spiked head and rugged resilience, these birds of paradise entangle grief and wonder to rise ‘upright and temporary’.
Mary Corkery’s first poetry collection, Simultaneous Windows, was published by Inanna in 2017. Her career has included various roles in social justice and international development organizations, most recently KAIROS: Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives where she was executive director for eight years. Now retired, Mary focuses on her writing, and volunteer work in support of refugees, and as chair of The Catherine Donnelly Foundation, which funds social justice work.
Recently, her poems have been published in Room, Descant, The Malahat Review, The Antigonish Review, Existere, The Nashwaak Review, Writing at Wintergreen (a 2012 anthology edited by Helen Humphreys), The Dream Catcher, (U.K.), Kindred (U.S.A.) and Sound Me When I’m Done, 2016 anthology edited by Lorna Crozier.
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