In The Poetics of Space, Gaston Bachelard elaborates on the poetics of existential space and calls for a spatial concept of the subject that brings together subject and world, being and fantasy. The movement between such contrasting forces suggests the idea of poetry as an expression of becoming, of movement towards, regardless of destination. As such, the poetic utterance becomes a site where boundaries between self and world are blurred and differences are transgressed in a web of movement and visionary change. This paper explores Ní Chuilleanáin’s use of spatial metaphors in light of these dialectics