Caoilinn Hughes is an Irish writer whose debut novel Orchid & the Wasp was recently published by Oneworld (UK) and comes out with Hogarth in the U.S. on July 10th. Her poetry collection, Gathering Evidence (Carcanet, 2014), won the Irish Times Shine/Strong Award. Her writing has appeared in Granta, Tin House, POETRY, Best British Poetry, BBC Radio 3 and elsewhere.
Transverse Orientation To watch moths as a pastime is known as mothing. Nothing is known about what makes one inclined to mother or less inclined to that sort of glow curio. Moth-er with — unexpectedly — the short O of body rather than the O Oh of that longer load zooming in on the…
— Oh hi, how are you? — I’m good, thank you. How are you? — How’s the job? — It’s great, actually. — Well that’s … that’s the diplomatic thing to say. — No it’s good – I mean, it’s working out good. — About cleaning toilets! — I guess you could say that,…
