Playing the Octopus: ENGLISH DICTIONARIES Reverend Paula Grant has been

Reverend Paula Grant has been patiently waiting for God to send her someone to share her life

the CBD and Warehouse District

there was no sun… she had been strangled

a concept that has long been misunderstood in popular culture

back to a home to which she never wants to return

Playing the Octopus: ENGLISH DICTIONARIES Reverend Paula Grant has beenMary O Malleys ninth collection moves between two landscapes, that of the West of Ireland and the East coast of America. The first section opens with an elegy for a poet and moves through the familiar geography of a house and its hinterland, and ends with a celebration of the redemptive power of music, one of two motifs that run through the book. The second section examines what happens when the poet finds herself Nel mezzo del camin in a changed