IMAGINARY BONNETS WITH REAL BEES IN THEM

(Dublin, Ireland): Ireland Chair of Poetry and University College Dublin Press. 2016. 1st edition. ix+86pp. Signed by Author on title page. Hardcover with dust jacket.  A very good clean copy, inside and out with a very good dust jacket. *"Imaginary Bonnets with REal Bees in Them meditates on poetry and mythology, geology, and the environment, teachers amd lyric, bees and bears, genetics, memory, personal history and much else. In three wide-ranging lectures Paula Meehan charts a contemporary poet's relationship with community (emblematised by bees), family (emblematised by bears), and selfhood (emblematised by water)."...dj