Geraldine Mills Livres

The journey of Geraldine Mills into the world of the short story has earned her many plaudits, and it is clear from this collection, why. She shines a high definition light into the varied landscapes of her different characters, so that even her minor actors are presented to us in a very visual way and leave very strong imprints. This is no surprise, for readers more familiar with Geraldine's work as a poet. She brings lyricism to her prose, along with a keen sense of how the surreal crops up in everyday life. Here we meet Aunt Lillis who lets the birds peck food from her teeth, the good doctor who helps women "keep their hearts in one place," or Stella who has a penchant for young boys. Her heroes fight constant battles with jealousy, marital disappointment, infidelity and death. Though the themes are dark, they are not without humour. Some battles are won, others lost, all wholly engrossing. Taking the title from her Hennessy award-winning story "Lick of the Lizard," the prose in these nine highly-wrought stories sings, and the collection is a welcome addition to the Irish literary pantheon.

In summer 2009, two award-winning poets, Lisa C. Taylor from Connecticut, and Geraldine Mills from Galway, came to a little cottage in Carna on the west coast of Ireland to forge a link between their lives. The Other Side of Longing celebrates this collaboration. With the Atlantic Ocean as the central metaphor, they explore themes of culture, folklore, flora and fauna through a series of poems of call and response, weaving in and out of their own internal and external landscapes. This collaboration of poems is infused with each other's experience in all its humanity, while retaining the individual voice and lyrical honesty.

In a verse memoir, Mills follows the journey of her great-grandfather and his family from County Mayo, Ireland, to Warren, Rhode Island, in the late nineteenth century.

In this, her third short story collection, Geraldine Mills extends her thematic range to excavate new and shifting landscapes. Not afraid to tackle taboos, Hellkite occupies a space all of its own, where gender expectations are realigned to explore woman’s inhumanity to man.

'The Weight of Feathers' is a charming retelling of the Greek myth of Dedalus and Icarus which illustrates the danger of flying too close to the sun. The author mixes fantasy with a matter-of-fact tone, never faltering for a second, as she leads us on a surreal voyage into the half known.