Moth Hour

A complex, moving and ambitious poetic engagement with the death of a brother. In 1973, Anne Kennedy's brother Philip was partying on a hillside when he accidentally fell to his death. In Moth Hour, Anne Kennedy returns to the death of her brother and the world he inhabited, writing "Thirty-Three Transformations on a Theme of Philip." Kennedy's extraordinary poems grapple with the rebellious world of her brother and his friends in the 1970's, grief and loss, and the arch of time. The poems reach into the threads of the past to build patterns, grasped for a moment and then unravelling in one's hands. Moth Hour is a complex, ambitious piece of writing and a moving poetic engagement with tragedy.