Cork poet clearing the path to creative output

Poet Mary Noonan whose second collection, Stone Girl, has just been published, says that working as a lecturer in UCC’s French Department, means that she has to clear her head of “academic stuff” in order to write creatively.

“It’s only when I get away from my job that I can write poetry. I write more when I’m on holidays. I like travelling, not so much because I get ideas but because it frees up my brain. It’s like clearing a space. Poetry comes from the unconscious.”