Goodbye Scarecrow by Billy Metcalfe and Siofra DromgooleWhy scarecrows? It was hard to answer that question at the beginning, and its almost harder now to pin down. This book is made up of Billys paintings and my poetry in dialogue; but also the poems of others, their voices credited throughout. Each approaches the object from different angles there are poems about lovers and poems about kindness, poems about nature and about hurt and about failure. One poet told me she was interested in the frictional