After I cut your hair, runningthe clippers back and forthuntil the tiles are littered with tuftslike grey lint swept from the drumof the tumble dryer, you pullyour T-shirt off and askif I can trim your chest hair. I oblige,and the whole time you gripmy roving wrist. Next Tuesdaywill be one year since they rana circular saw up your sternumand jacked you open,since they hooked you upto the heart-lun ... (read more)
Audrey Molloy

Audrey Molloy grew up in Ireland and has lived in Sydney since 1998. Her début collection, The Important Things (The Gallery Press, 2021), won the Anne Elder Award and was shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize. The Blue Cocktail was published by both The Gallery Press and Pitt Street Poetry in 2023. She has an MA in Creative Writing from Manchester Metropolitan University. She was awarded a Varuna Residential Fellowship in 2020 and is the grateful recipient of a Literature Bursary Award from The Arts Council of Ireland.