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.