Of Ferns & a Fearless Woman

Mairéad Keenan’s second poetry collection, Of Ferns and a Fearless Woman, carries the reader through four distinct seasons of the soul: The Reckoning confronts the shadows, naming heartbreak, silence and the cost of staying small. The Awakening stirs with light and breath, where new truths take root. The Rising roars with courage and fire, a woman choosing herself again and again. The Remembering returns to softness, earth and belonging. The place where wholeness is reclaimed. 

With unflinching honesty, wry humor and deep tenderness, Mairéad writes of love, loss and transformation in ways that resonate far beyond her own story. Her poems invite you to feel everything — the aches, the anger, the hope, the joy — and to walk beside a woman who dares to face it all and stand fearless in her becoming.