Catriona Clutterbuck
From “The Butterfly Notebook” to The Magpie and the Child: An Interview with Catriona Clutterbuck
Catriona Clutterbuck’s debut collection, The Magpie and the Child, is out this month, and the book was a long time in the making. Bernard O’Donoghue, fellow Irish poet and academic, interviewed Clutterbuck about moving forward through the act of making poems, the two-way traffic of absence and presence, and the process of transforming manuscript to book…
Continue ReadingPoem of the Week: “Rib” by Catriona Clutterbuck
When God took a rib out of man
and made it up into woman,
he left the cage of man’s heart unfinished,
missing one bar, undone.