Stone Girl, Mary Noonan’s second collection of poems, is preoccupied with stone statues of women – the statue of the Virgin at Granard (beside which Ann Lovett died), the statue of the Virgin carried through the streets of Seville to the bullring on Easter Sunday morning, the caryatids seeming to carry the buildings of Paris on their shoulders, Pygmalion’s statue of a woman that comes to life…

The book navigates between the author’s native Cork and Paris, frequenting the ghosts found in both place and discovering in the process that the borders between the living and the dead are porous.