The Beauty in the Broken by Cora Peters

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From the opening title poem The Beauty in the Broken with its line ‘where she stitched a seam…as silver as the moon…across my chest’ to the detailed observations in prose of Limerick life, I was hooked on Cora Peters’ debut publication. It is a deeply insightful and moving memoir about her childhood, family, education, the people who mattered to her and the place (warts an’ all) which gave us this most extraordinary and humane voice.

— John Liddy, poet and writer.

 

 

 

 

Description

Cora Peters has a long association with the artistic community in Limerick. She was a reader at the White House Poetry Revival Sessions, which ran from 2003 to 2018 and has also read at the Limerick Poets’ Society at O’Brien’s Bar; She has been a regular contributor to the First Wednesday Poetry Series since its launch in 2023 and has read her poetry in The Belltable Arts Centre, The Peoples’ Museum, Pery Square, Cúirt International Festival of Literature, Nuns Island Theatre, Galway, Shandon Bell Tower, Cork. She has recited her stories in The Hunt Museum, Angela’s Rambling House at The Coach House, Pery Square. King John’s Castle, Treaty City Brewery and for the nationwide Failté Ireland Poetry trail. She also completed a course in writing for the media at Limerick Senior College and has reviewed for The Arts Programme on RTE Radio 1. She is a graduate of the Irish College of Traditional Chinese Medicine where she studied psychotherapy and acupuncture, and graduated with a first class honours degree in traditional Chinese medicine.