Author Description

Life is a series of coastlines: ancestral, geographical and psychological. The soul constantly searches and crosses the borders of human existence. These life stages - leaving home, finding love, losing love, are within the realms of everyday life. The author is torn between western Ireland and New York as her collection reflects on a sense of place. Wild ATLANTIC Soul dances across coastlines exploring boundaries of ancestry, of the heart, and places of the soul. Kerry poems.<br/>Reviews:<br/>In Wild Atlantic Soul, Theresa Daly’s (TD) new, wonderful book of poems, the tender, familiar surface often gives way to more troubling realities below. A lover switches on the light in Weary Fingers, then remembers a past, marching “through the fields of Da Nang // … nervous fingers flinching the trigger…” What starts out simply ends with the disruption of memory, trauma. A quiet poem of loneliness hints at a more fearful reality. A Year Of Being Single tells us of the end of a relationship, with ‘no roses…, no Valentine’s wish’ but triumphantly closes with 'no man pinning me down'. In Back To Derry, a teenage boy is taken into British custody. He's offered sex for information. When he refuses, they make fun of his ‘young… hairless penis.’ Theresa Daly, who also did the beautiful cover art for her book, has written seductive, alluring poems. Don't be fooled — Wild Atlantic Soul rages, too.<br/>-Sam Turner (Four-time BRIO Award winning Poet)<br/>[Wild Atlantic Soul] presses every button on the elevator to my heart. Everything from love to rebellion. …shows both [her] Irish and American. And, some poems are heartbreaking, and yet, never do I sense a victim. I love how [TD has] converted some [of] life's disappointments into beautiful words, and thereby transformed them into victories. [TD] captured third parties of both genders very well. Convincing. [TD is] that third party. I felt like I was sitting in Coaches II [local bar in The Bronx, NY] when I read Hometown. Consumed is