The Other Poet Drives A Black Mercedes

The Other Poet Drives a Black Mercedes is Órfhlaith Foyle's fourth short-story collection. It is a paean to a writer's imagination and experience, where the liminal border between the conscious world and the other world exists.

A young teacher of English witnesses the results of a gangland murder in East End, London then later is visited by a fisherwoman, a medieval monk and a Norman knight. An artist murdered in Auschwitz now lives a refugee life in Athlone, Co. Westmeath, Ireland. A family wake descends into a matter-of-fact burning of the dead. A poet journeys into the other world of her imagination. A medieval scribe writes an account of her pilgrimage to St Patrick's Purgatory to her murdered father, Thomas à Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, and Emily Brontë struggles to write her second novel, battling with the disapproval from her two sisters and brother of her first novel Wuthering Heights.