A NEW collection of poems by a young Limerick author is setting out to capture the “chaotic, confusing, and often comical experience of leaving college behind and stumbling head first into adulthood in modern Ireland”.
‘Quarter Life Crisis’ is the debut offering from Limerick poet Lauren McNamara, a collection of works to be published by Revival Press, run by the Limerick Writer’s Centre.
Hot off a performance at the Glastonbury Festival earlier this year, McNamara sets to provide with her new work an unfiltered yet deeply relatable look at the unique struggles and triumphs facing today’s twenty-somethings.
Already published widely across the country, the Doon writer and PhD graduate from Mary Immaculate College has been prominently printed by Poetry Ireland, Revival Press, and Routledge.
A two-time All-Ireland Slam poetry runner up and Munster Slam champion, McNamara has won several awards and residencies already, including being a former Dromineer and Nenagh Literary Festival writer in residence. She has performed her plays, Quarter Life Crisis and Hello My Name is Single to much acclaim.
The Limerick Writer’s Center said the collection is a “must-read for anyone who has struggled to navigate life’s most disorienting decade”.
Professor Eugene O’Brien of the English Literature and Language department at Mary Immaculate College, who will launch the new poetry collection later this month, described the book as a “witty and thoughtful account of a quarter century of a very lived life”.
The launch will take place on August 29 at the Belltable on O’Connell Street.
