Painting Rain

Paula Meehan was born in Dublin where she still lives. She was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and at Eastern Washington University. She has published five previous collections of poetry and received many awards for her work including the Denis Devlin Award of the Irish Arts Council (An Chonthairle Ealafon) for Dharmakaya, which Carcanet published in 2000. She has also written plays - for stage (for both children and adults) and for radio - and held a creative writing fellowship at University College, Dublin.Meehan has worked with inner city communities and conducted workshops in prisons.

'Paula Meehan is that rare and precious thing - a vocational poet ofcourage and integrity. Already much-loved and admired far beyond theshores of her native Ireland, Meehan advances her claim on our heartsand minds with Painting Rain. From present-day Dublin to AncientGreece, the myths and flawed heroes of her poems give back to us our ownlives, counted out in illuminated moments of joy, pain, love andmemory.'Carol Ann Duffy