In Spring We Turned to Water is the first full-length collection of poetry from Michael Dooley. It brings together poems of intricate watchfulness and stunning revelation from the natural world. In parts memory and experience, parts lore and the dreamlike, these visually striking and distinctly sounded poems emerge from a liminal terrain tightly charged with folklores and heritages, water bodies, outsiders, and wild creatures.

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Fiercely crafted, exquisitely lyrical—Dean Browne

A rare and tremendous talent—Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe

Shot through with a kind of magical realism—Jessica Traynor

This book is a wonder—Doireann Ní Ghríofa

Gives the pastoral tradition back its teeth and claws—Stephen Sexton

A sensitive and eerie lyric exploration of how our personal, historical and mythical pasts haunt us—

Ellen Orchard

Pastorals that reach inside Irish nature poetry and turn the heart anti-clockwise—

Simon Costello