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This paper offers a critical analysis of Leanne O'Sullivan's debut collection Waiting for My Clothes, in particular focusing on its recurrent themes of anorexia and bulimia. Leanne O'Sullivan is part of a new generation of Irish poets, located at the crossroads of tradition and modernity. In its critique of the so-called beauty myth, Waiting for My Clothes takes the reader to a New Ireland where the anxiety for national definitions has lost part of its force in favour of the progressive internalisation of Irish life. However, this paper will concentrate on O'Sullivan's examination of the religious dimension of anorexic patterns, an aspect that presents her as heiress of the influence exerted by Catholicism in the conceptualisations of femininity in Ireland. Key Words: New Irish poets; Anorexia/Bulimia; Holy anorexia; Female corporeality  Al dolor hay que encebarlo bien, y luego lanzarlo lejos y esperar a que suceda algo en la inmensidad del mar, que el hilo avise, que la cana se mueva, y que el dolor te traiga la cena de esa noche. Luisa Castro, Viajes con mi padre Trying to pull things out of affliction into the light of day and let them have their own space. Recovering things from your own past, or from a collective past, is to achieve freedom by the act of recovery. Paula Meehan In her introduction to The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World, Elaine Scarry argues that pain occurring in people's bodies goes unnoticed by anyone except the sufferer. According to Scarry, physical pain brings about a radical split between one's own reality and the realities experienced by the rest of the world. While for the people in pain their physical distress may become the experience that underpins all the activities of their daily lives, other individuals would be unable to catch hold of this dimension of bodily reality. Therefore, the theorist continues, pain is at the same time "that which cannot be denied" -since it is absolutely central to the sufferer's existence- and "that which cannot be confirmed" -by anyone else, regardless of the physical or emotional distance that separates the self in pain from other members of his/her community (1985: 4). At the core of Scarry's argument lies the belief that pain's strength -this utter separation of self and others- results from its capacity to shatter linguistic articulation or, in other words, from its resistance to language, an aspect that ensures its unshareability. In their desire to awaken the reader's empathy, medical language, the publications of Amnesty International and artistic discourses could be considered valuable exceptions to this lack of verbal articulation. However, it is worth noting that even though world literature of all epochs is flooded with emotional pain of one kind or another, what happens in the physical dimension of distress is not so frequently recorded. It seems as if pain would be too extreme or too private an experience to ever be put into words, to ever be exposed. Leanne O'Sullivan's debut collection of poetry, Waiting for My Clothes (2004), can be described as an artistic utterance of exactly what it feels like to inhabit an emaciated body constantly put under the pressure of starvation, purging and self-abuse. Most of the fifty-three poems that make up the volume take the reader to the darkest realms of adolescence -mainly the experiences of extreme anorexia and bulimia- as well as to the onset of recovery and healing. Far from sticking to the medical or confessional modes usually associated with eating disorders, these poems present O'Sullivan as one of the emerging talents of Ireland, one that does not hesitate to inscribe into the literary text a bodily experience that had been kept silenced or marginalised in representation, both in Ireland and elsewhere. In spite of her youth (born in Cork in 1983), Leanne O'Sullivan has already won most of Ireland's main poetry awards and her work has appeared in a number of magazines and anthologies, (2) among them The New Irish Poets, edited by Selina Guinness (2004b), O'Sullivan being the youngest poet included. …

‘The Famine of the 90s’: Female Starvation and Religious Thought in Leanne O’Sullivan’s Waiting for My Clothes