Table of Contents
Learning to Eat my Mother, where my Mother is the Teacher 7
(M)eat 9
A Young Girl Considers Her Reflection 10
Corpus Christi Procession 11
Swing 13
Swimming Lesson 14
Hunger Strikes Catherine of Siena (1347-1380) 16
Choke 17
Second Communion 19
Forty Days 20
Doll Game 21
Beached Whale 23
Lighthouse 24
Hunger Strikes Angela of Foligno (1248-1309) 25
Second Family 26
Alternative Medicine 33
Cure for Anaemia 34
Count Ugolino or History's Vaguest Cannibal 36
Selfie 37
Hunger Strikes Veronica Giuliani (1660-1727) 38
Researching the Irish Famine 39
Cork Schoolgirl Considers the GPO, Dublin 2016 41
The Talk 42
Big Girl 43
Supper 44
What it Would be Like to Eat a Girl 45
The Preacher's Daughter 46
In Memory of Mary Tyler Moore 47
Hunger Strikes Columba of Rieti (1467-1501) 48
Diet 49
Arctic Circle 50
January 51
Rib 52
I Didn't Know What to Do With Myself 53
A Young Girl Considers her Grandmother, Ballinamona Co. Cork 1921 54
Pythagoreans 56
Hunger Strikes Gemma Galgani (1878-1903) 57
Paris Syndrome 59
Burn Baby, Burn 60
Moby-Dick 61
On the Publication of Les Terres du Ciel (1884) 62
Smell Dating 64
In Heptonstall 65
How to Skin a Dogfish 66
Hunger Strikes Victoria Kennefick 67
Family Planning 68
Intercession to St. Anthony 69
Guest Room 71
Á La Carte 72
Open Your Mouth 73
A Prayer to Audrey Hepburn 75
Acknowledgements 77
