Cures by Jo Brandon Maura Dooley demonstrate the vitality of ancient

demonstrate the vitality of ancient and modern poetic tradition

In this intimate and vital debut

that every commuter you pass on a rain-glazed street is writing like this as soon as they clock out

but which does not belong to us

the familiar and the strange in poems which cast a sharp eye over their subject matter and return with wry

Cures by Jo Brandon Maura Dooley demonstrate the vitality of ancientFrom a sapient pig to human extinction, syphilis to broken bones, a woman who births rabbits to changelings in the crib, this collection explores the full range of human fallibility as well as the eternal quest for hopefulness. Cures is filled with strange characters: volcanic women, a rat catcher on the brink of retirement, a bonesetter, a drunkard, a mermaid; the collection is brimful with both the uncanny and the familiar, exploring the joys of