Rosemary Jenkinson

Belfast poet, fiction writer and playwright, Rosemary Jenkinson launches her new poetry collection Let Freedom Fall Upon You, in conversation with renowned poet Damian Smyth.

Let Freedom Fall Upon You is a strikingly original poetry collection from Rosemary Jenkinson, following hot on the heels of her first collection, Sandy Row Riots, which was highly commended in the Forward Prizes. These poems explore the unmapped spaces of modern love and relationships, the epiphanies embedded in the natural world, the need for revolution, and the burial of troubled history in bogland. While mainly set in Northern Ireland, Let Freedom Fall Upon You looks globally to the USA, Ukraine, the Middle East and the Paris Olympics/Paralympics. The writing is breathtakingly alive, crackling with electric observations and pulsating with personal philosophy, proverbs and politics.

Rosemary Jenkinson is a poet, fiction writer, playwright and essayist from Belfast. The Irish Times has praised her fiction for ‘an elegant wit, terrific characterization and an absolute sense of her own particular Belfast’ while Damian Smyth has singled out her poetry for ‘a lyric temperament and a political wit to be reckoned with.’