In July 1974, Ann Ogilby, a young mother of four, was abducted and murdered in Belfast by members of a loyalist women's unit.
These documentary poems draw on court transcripts, newspaper reports, political speeches and archival records to reconstruct the world surrounding her death. They examine the forces that shaped it: poverty, power, loyalty, misogyny and the policing of women's lives.
A Personal Thing is an act of witness, recovering one woman's story from the language that obscured it and asking what remains unresolved more than fifty years later.
These documentary poems draw on court transcripts, newspaper reports, political speeches and archival records to reconstruct the world surrounding her death. They examine the forces that shaped it: poverty, power, loyalty, misogyny and the policing of women's lives.
A Personal Thing is an act of witness, recovering one woman's story from the language that obscured it and asking what remains unresolved more than fifty years later.