The Whole and Rain-domed Universe
Colette Bryce
2014 • Picador
Poetry for me is a way of understanding the world, a way of thinking. You’re constantly peering through these tiny portholes to find out what’s going on, in a way that perhaps you can’t get access to in other ways of thinking. The poem is the result of that thought process.
— Colette Bryce
The Whole and Rain-domed Universe
Colette Bryce
2014 • Picador
Poetry for me is a way of understanding the world, a way of thinking. You’re constantly peering through these tiny portholes to find out what’s going on, in a way that perhaps you can’t get access to in other ways of thinking. The poem is the result of that thought process.
— Colette Bryce
Description
The Whole & Rain-domed Universe is Colette Bryce’s much-anticipated follow-up to Self-Portrait in the Dark. The book presents the reader with an extraordinarily clear-eyed, vivid and sometimes disturbing account of growing up in Derry during the Troubles, with many ghosts both raised and laid to rest. The Whole & Rain-domed Universe is a riveting poetic document of the time; Bryce turns her clear, singing line to darker ends than she has before, describing not just the warmth and eccentricity of family and the claustrophobia of home-life, but also the atmosphere of suspicion, and the real and present threat of terrible violence. Bryce is one of the most widely acclaimed poets of the post-Heaney generation, and this is her most directly personal and compelling work to date.
Excerpts
Interviews
- Dundee University Review of the Arts: Interview with Colette Bryce
- Poetry London: 'Little Windows, Difficult Truths – Colette Bryce Talks to Alex Pryce'
- The Manchester Review: Adam Wyeth Interview with Colette Bryce
Prizes & Awards
Reviews
- Hilary Davies, Times Literary Supplement
- Dave Coates, Dave Poems Blog
- Sandra Ireland, Dundee University Review of the Arts
- David Green, David Green Books Blog
- Natasha Borton, The Wendyhouse Blog
Audio
Video
- UCD Library Special Collections: ‘The Brits’ Read by Colette Bryce
- UCD Library Special Collections: ‘White’ Read by Colette Bryce
- Irish Arts Center: Irish Arts Center Poem of the Week - Colette Bryce's ‘Asylum’
- Villanova University: 20th Annual Villanova Literary Festival - Collette Bryce
- Belfast International Arts Festival: Colette Bryce and Nick Laird
