Naomi Butt is an Irish poet whose debut collection The Art of Poetry was born not from ambition, but from necessity. Living with fibromyalgia, PTSD, and the layered aftermath of early trauma, she turned to poetry as the one language honest enough to hold what she was carrying. She is fifty-one years old, a woman of deep faith who has made the pilgrimage to Medina and Mecca, a daughter who has known both the warmth of family and the cost of not quite belonging, and a person who has sat in the in-between between the flicker and the flame and chosen, again and again, to keep writing. Her poems span the spiritual and the clinical, the tender and the raw, the grief of losing a mother and the joy of a father turning ninety on Valentine’s Day. Published by Ireland Publishing House, Dublin, The Art of Poetry marks the arrival of a voice that has waited long enough to be heard.