Dorothy Molloy was a star in the making when Faber prepared her debut _Hare Soup_ (2004) for publication, before tragedy struck, and she died four days before advance copies arrived. With its distinctive and unsettling mix of comedy and complicity, dark humour and disturbance (a feminist burlesque that has seen her work christened as 'gurlesque'), _Hare Soup _stripped the veneer from the niceties of relations in family life and the Catholic church, turning its inventive and sexually charged gaze to corruption and abuse in our most private spaces. The book rightly won accolades and admirers, and was followed by a further, posthumous collection, _Gethsemane Day_ (2006) that was prepared from typescript. _The Poems of Dorothy Molloy_ gathers these two collections alongside her manuscript work, which appeared as _Long-Distance Swimmer_ (Salmon, 2009), and the remaining body of unpublished material to present a complete edition of poems to meet the growing readership of this startling talent.