‘The lyric mode—for Drummond—becomes a way to decouple language from its enmeshment in the program destroying the world / destroying the possibility for lyric…
‘While feelings of hopelessness do not abate for the characters, they are inextricable from the beauty of the literary and cultural allusions prevalent in…
‘The fictional elements are realised with a full-bloodedness and emotional delicacy reminiscent of Edmund White.’ A great review of David Kelly‘s Host City…
‘Intriguing and cosmopolitan, McNamara’s stories are infused with historical weight and a worldly wisdom suggestive of timeless, even epic, narrative.’ A cracker of a…
‘With their proliferation of question marks and hypotheticals, and their music, these poems rouse, prod, and rattle. They invite us to inhabit our own…