Tidal is the second poetry collection by west of Ireland poet Karen J McDonnell. Her poems explore the tropes and roles we impose on memory and history: what we commemorate, what we choose to remember, how age affects viewpoints. McDonnell is interested in how form — and also erasure and found poems — can be used in approaching historical events and biographical themes; excavating both universal and personal responses to our tiny, huge, lonely, ugly, beautiful world.