54 Questions for the Man Who Sold a Shotgun to My Father by Joe Carrick-Varty Jackie Kay even - and full of

even - and full of warnings

Residual Synonyms for the Name of God performs the proliferation of language and culture in our late capitalist moment as a residual structure of a religious past

The Atlantic horizon ‘where the sun lies down in the west to die’ is mirrored inland by corruption and rot

senses arrested by and made constantly to face the sea

54 Questions for the Man Who Sold a Shotgun to My Father by Joe Carrick-Varty Jackie Kay even - and full ofJoe Carrick Varty's poems don't need permission from anybody. Their exceptional and beautiful vulnerability is a permission all of its own. Each poem contained here demonstrates a mind completely awake to the sadnesses and risks of intimacy, and awake to finding an original vocabulary for articulating these things. A brilliant short collection. I'm utterly convinced of this poet's talent. Wayne Holloway Smith Joe Carrick Varty is a British born Irish