Painting Rain explores an Ireland where uncontrolled development is
tearing apart a sustaining ecology. Paula Meehan sifts through the lore
and memory available to her: her own journey through life, the small
victories and large defeats that shape a world. Hers is an ambitious
meditation, from that point where private memory, mythology and ecology
meet. The home, the city's heart, neglected suburban battlegrounds, all
are shot through with visionary light. In poems of loss, hymns to the
empty world, celebrations of people and place, Meehan confronts the
darkness that everywhere threatens. These are poems that sustain belief
in the power of language to reveal, interrogate and heal.