Tender Ship
“Water is intelligent. // It knows the fluid difference between tenderness and harm”
Catherine Gander was born in England, has lived in several countries, and now resides in Ireland where she teaches at Maynooth University and runs the Maynooth Poetry and Poetics series (with Karl O’Hanlon) and the IRC-funded Diversifying Irish Poetry: Poetry Critics of Colour in Ireland (DIP). Her words and art have been published and anthologised internationally, and recent work can be found in Ink, Sweat and Tears, Juniper, Abridged, Poetry Ireland Review, One Hand Clapping, Bad Lilies, The Madrigal, West Trestle Review, and Prole, where she was runner up in the Prole Laureate Poetry Competition.
“Water is intelligent. // It knows the fluid difference between tenderness and harm”