{"product_id":"chic-to-be-sad","title":"Chic to be Sad","description":"\u003cp\u003eMolly Twomey’s first collection,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/gallerypress.com\/product\/raised-among-vultures\/\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eRaised Among Vultures\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, touched readers and listeners in uncommon ways. Reviewing it in Poetry Ireland’s\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eTrumpet\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eAnnie Brown wrote that it ‘feels like a friend’.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eChic to be Sad\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003econtinues a young woman’s report from the front lines of experience. These fearless poems, rich in simile (a smile ‘wide \/ as a long weekend’) and striking detail, rest in ordinary settings — an ‘Online Staff Meeting’, an Aldi car park in Youghal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFramed between work that centres on a fire in her family home this book displays an even wider range than her debut — from ‘My Brother’s Friends Draw Dicks’, ‘The Mechanic Speaks to My Boyfriend Over My Head’ and ‘Why We Don’t Have Kids’ it reaches to the Guggenheim Museum in Venice and considerations of art. There’s a constant sense of the aftermath of illness and the poems never shy from physical and emotional vulnerability. Brave in its honesty and directness,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eChic to be Sad\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003econfirms a special gift and presence in Irish poetry before reaching its wise conclusion: ‘There is so much to know, \/ so much I want you to hear.’\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Gallery Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52830890590536,"sku":"9781917371049","price":13.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/9475\/3259\/files\/Screenshot2026-04-03at12.23.44.png?v=1775215508","url":"https:\/\/shop.moli.ie\/en-gb\/products\/chic-to-be-sad","provider":"MoLI","version":"1.0","type":"link"}