James Joyce’s Water Closet by Heather Corbally Bryant

Heather Corbally Bryant has given us the gift of traveling to beloved places and the people that  inhabit ancient lands with wisdom and dignity. With a luminous language  the poet brings us to Ireland and with her verse that is deep and melodious we accompany her to Ireland. A land a place that in  Heather Corbally Bryant poetical imagination conjures a world of inner and outer beauty. Each poem is crafted with beauty and wonder and we the readers travel through Land and sea. Imagine Dublin and James Joyce with the poets eye that is generous in its Understanding of the places we inhabit in our soul.

A book that one can read so many times and find in each poem  always something new to wonder and reflect.

–Marjorie Agosin

“Heather Corbally Bryant’s latest collection of poems draws on the energies of travelogue, memoir, and family diary, to convey what the author calls “the particularity of the inconsequential.” The book captures the sense of discovery felt by the author in a foreign country, even when that country, as here, seems both strange and familiar at once. In these poems we understand the thrill and dislocation of encounter with a new landscape, and the language of the poems conveys all that warmly and affectionately, with a probing, delicate accuracy.”

–Jonathan Allison, Professor of English, University of Kentucky