Break In The Waves Rachel McCrum

Welcome to A Break in the Waves, a moment of poetry brought to you by Push the Boat Out. Rachel McCrum is a poet, performer, and educator originally from Northern Ireland. During her 6 year stay in Edinburgh, before moving to her new home of Montreal, Rachel was BBC Scotland’s first Poet-in-Residence, a recipient of a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship, and one half of the much loved poetry duo, Rally and Broad. Winner of the 2012 Callum Macdonald Memorial Award for her first pamphlet, The Glassblower Dances, Rachel’s first collection, The First Blast to Awaken Women Degenerate, is now available in both English and in a bilingual French-English edition. In today’s A Break in the Waves, Rachel brings to us an excerpt from her longer suit of poems, Clean Sheets.