Bloodroot explores the frailty and complexity of human relationships, often addressing the question of what it means to ‘belong’ in the world. Having grown up flanked on one side by the Atlantic Ocean and on the other side by a troubled political border, Ní Churreáin brings the perspective of living in subliminal tension and surrounded by natural beauty to her poetry. Many of her poems inhabit parallel worlds, suggesting dual ways of experiencing people, places and events, often evoking the mystery of ‘in between’ places.
