Mira Halloran

Dublin / Marseille

Mira Halloran is a poet and translator who divides her year between Dublin and Marseille. She translates contemporary French poetry into English and writes her own work in both languages, often starting a poem in one and finishing it in the other. Her first collection, Weather for Tenants, came out from a small press in Cork. She is working on a sequence about the kitchens she has lived in, which so far runs to twenty-three poems and one recipe.

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An open kitchen drawer seen from above, holding string, candles, rubber bands and an old key, in warm light

POETRY

Inventory for a Kitchen Drawer

String used from both ends, two birthday candles and a key to a door we no longer have. A list poem for the drawer every kitchen has.

Linocut of a kitchen table with a bowl of lemons and a folded cloth, printed in ochre and warm brown

FILM & BOOK REVIEW

A Novel That Refuses to Leave the Kitchen

Clémence Aury's The Pantry Hours takes place over one year in one kitchen and never goes outside. In Tobias Wren's translation it is the quietest and most absorbing novel I have read this summer.

Linocut of a tall window with a thin curtain lifted by a draught, printed in ochre and dark brown

POETRY

Sublet

A short poem about living among someone else's cups, radiators and floorboards, and about how to give a key back.