The Sun is Open by Gail McConnell #German A Bluebottle in Late October

A Bluebottle in Late October is a memorable sequence of poems

Clarice has used her gifts to raise herself from the urban Jamaican ghetto

As complex themes of multilingualism

earth and air

The Sun is Open by Gail McConnell #German A Bluebottle in Late OctoberThe Sun is Open sifts through a boxed archive of public and private materials related to the life and death of the authors father, who was murdered by the IRA outside their Belfast home in 1984. Moving between child and adult voices, past and present, this startlingly innovative debut attempts to decode the fragments left behind and, with them, piece together a history and a life. Each page of The Sun Is Open is rich with exquisite and surprising