'FALLEN' by Audrey Molloy Book Launch

‘Wives are afraid of me now.’ From the opening line of Fallen there is a sense of danger and intimacy. In her latest and most risqué collection Audrey Molloy asks: What makes a good person? What does it mean to be a fallen woman? And can she ever redeem herself? ‘You are one side of an abyss. Everything decent, the other.’ Expanding its vision to track the fallen woman through history, religion and myth Fallen offers better endings for some of the tragic heroines of novel and opera for whom Audrey Molloy speaks. While the poems mine the exquisite pain, joy and persistent guilt of an illicit love affair and expose post-separation social opprobrium, at the core of this collection is the most tender of love stories. ‘And then a skylight opened for each of us.’





Audrey Molloy was born in Dublin, grew up in Wexford, and has lived in Sydney since 1998. She has an MA in Creative Writing (Poetry) from Manchester Metropolitan University. Her debut collection, The Important Things (The Gallery Press, 2021), was shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize and won the Anne Elder Award. Her second collection, The Blue Cocktail, was published by the Gallery Press and Pitt Street Poetry in 2023. She has been shortlisted for major awards including the Montreal, Bridport and Moth poetry prizes. She is co-editor of The Marrow International Poetry

Join us for this important book launch in Red Books at 3pm on Sunday the 2nd of November.

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