This collection won the Poetry Society
's Alice Hunt Bartlett
Award.
Dunmore, Helen. Short Days, Long Nights. Bloodaxe Books, 1991.
prelims
Gillian Clarke
praised the book for suggesting the way that women spend their lives in uncertainty,for its evocation of unease in domestic...
Reception
Medbh McGuckian
After publishing this volume, MMG
was given a major bursary the same year by the Irish Arts Council. She also won the Rooney Prize (Dublin), Ireland's top award for Irish Literature (1982), and the Alice Hunt Bartlett
