Digging deep for book of poems

Poet, Leanne O’Sullivan, will read from her latest collection, The Mining Road, at the Allihies Arts Week, in Beara, West Cork on Saturday.

O’Sullivan always wanted to be a writer. “I was a bit of a dreamer and a very sensitive kid. I was all eyes and ears, like a sponge, taking in a lot. I was always telling myself stories and writing them down.”

O’Sullivan’s powers of observation have served her well. The Mining Road is her third volume of poetry, and is rooted in Beara, where she was born and reared. It’s an astutely observed take on the West Cork landscape, inspired by the disused copper mines around Allihies, near her family home.