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“Dear friends I cannot rescue you”

If All the World and Love Were Young by Stephen Sexton

March 23, 2024 by tiny_bookbot Leave a Comment

I heard about this collection last summer, in a context that will sound a little insufferable, i.e. at a poetry roundtable at an Irish Studies conference where we were discussing a fairly experimental work, but bear with me: someone brought up this collection as a poetry collection that, yes, was concerned with place, as so much poetry is, but one of those places was the digital world of Super Mario Bros. Well, that got my attention. But also I was tired AF from jet lag so […]

Filed Under: Featured, Poetry Tagged With: CBR16, irish poetry, poetry, Stephen Sexton

tiny_bookbot's CBR16 Review No:2 · Genres: Featured, Poetry · Tags: CBR16, irish poetry, poetry, Stephen Sexton ·
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