‘Sharing the Shore’
(July 2024)
The astounding beauty of the Donegal coastline around Rosbeg has compelled us to return there for over 25 years, fostering a love of the place which we have tried to capture in this book. The collection offers our combined creative response to an area of such shared significance and our long watchful awareness of each others work.
The Gomer Press in West Wales have worked with Joan and I to produce a beautifully finished full colour hardback book. (which we are proud to publish under our new imprint ‘Hare’s Corner Press’…… the hare’s corner is an old expression for a piece of ground left undisturbed on the farm for the hare to shelter)
A special Limited Edition of 95 copies, individually numbered and signed by Joan and myself, will cost £35 (plus P+P). Unsigned / unnumbered copies will cost £20 (plus P+P).
All profits from sales of the book will once again be donated to the charity Doctors without Borders (MSF). If you would like to order any copies and help support their work, please contact us directly at noelconnoretc@yahoo.co.uk and we’ll get back to you with any further information you may require.
Dawros Bay
This is our landscape,
the headland bracing itself
and facing the brunt
of the Atlantic head on.
And we have clambered
to that bouldered cove again,
our sculpted hideaway,
where the big ocean
makes an exhibition of itself,
a gallery of toppled slabs
and half sunken monuments.
Here I found a fallen block
sheared off from the rock face,
re-shelved it intact on the broken ledge
and gently eased it back in place.
I closed the fracture to a hairline split,
made the pattern and the contours true
and all the jagged edges fit,
last winter’s storms defied for you.