Dodo Stories

Mary Mulholland’s poems are widely published in magazines and anthologies, often mentioned in competitions, and she's recently been nominated for a Pushcart prize. She founded the poetry platform, Red Door Poets, is a founder / editor of The Alchemy Spoon, and has a Poetry School/ Newcastle MA in poetry. Her background is in psychology and the arts, and occasionally she does a spell of shepherding.

'Haunted, compelling, redemptive, Mary Mulholland’s brilliant debut tracks the shame-hidden bloodlines of transatlantic indenture, by following her own great grandparents’ passage from starving Madeira, into seven years’ forced labour on the sugar cane plantations of Guyana. Afterwards denied and obscured by their descendants, this legacy of shadows is rewritten by poems which illuminate what remains among the harsh, lushly tropical beauties of Guyana, but also in archives, and within the Fernandes diaspora. Questing and forensic, but also sensuous, and tender, Mary Mulholland’s work transforms us through its layered revelations of the continuing repercussions of binding human beings into servitude.'