By Mary Noonan

Stone Girl, Mary Noonan’s second collection of poems, is preoccupied with stone statues of women; the statue of the Virgin at Granard (beside which Ann Lovett died), the statue of the Virgin carried through the streets of Seville to the bullring on Easter Sunday morning, the caryatids seeming to carry the buildings of Paris on their shoulders, Pygmalion’s statue of a woman that comes to life.