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Irish Women’s Poetry: Colette Bryce
...world of cars and garages more often associated with heterosexual norms and ‘fathers’. We can see Colette Bryce’s ‘outsiderness’ in this poem: quietly and sensually, the lovers defy mainstream social codes. As with the rope trick, the car wash is a clear, everyday image. At the same time, it stands for complex ideas about public and private lives. [Photograph:...