How Long to Read May Swim

How Long Does it Take to Read May Swim?

It takes the average reader to read May Swim by Katie Donovan

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

By turns lyrical and sardonic, this new collection from Katie Donovan is characteristically watery - candid and uncompromising in its refusal to inhabit the safer reaches of the shore. Themes of loss, widowhood and ageing co-exist with observations of her wild garden and its inhabitants, including a mangy fox she helps to survive. Small acts of salvage are often all that is possible in the face of overwhelming odds, such as the permission given during the Covid-19 pandemic to go 2km from home. This allowed Donovan to swim at White Rock, her local beach, thus staying afloat through the fear of that brutal time and what came next - the death of her mother. In some of these new poems the comforting delusion of rescue is highlighted as a flawed but human necessity, as in the case of Ishi, the last of his tribe "saved to be / a living exhibit in a museum". Other poems give voice to the remorse that is the haunting of a failed rescue. Whether writing about her hybrid car, the death of whales from ingesting plastic waste, abortion now being legal in Ireland, or the increase in demand for sex dolls, Donovan's idiosyncratic range of tone and subject continues to enthral and engage the reader thirty years after her debut collection, Watermelon Man, arrived with its "distinguished and open language" and "bold statements of identity" (Eavan Boland).

How long is May Swim?

May Swim by Katie Donovan is 0 pages long, and a total of 0 words.

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How Long Does it Take to Read May Swim Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes to read May Swim aloud.

What Reading Level is May Swim?

May Swim is suitable for students ages 2 and up.

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