If her first collection Goddess on the Mervue Bus were to capture any more of the character, of the quirks, of the desperation of this island - and the West in particular - she would have to have published a telephone-directory-sized volume complete with the Birth Certificates and Curricula Vitae of all the people who (consciously or unconsciously) compelled her to put pen to paper. Ever, Life lived to the backdrop of supermarket clatter, pub talk, Galway-speak, and factory chant is reproduced in a musical rather than rhythmical style that seems not uninfluenced by the socially-involved 'sub-cultures' of the 60's and early 70's.