An Ocean of StaticFrom the late 15th century onwards, a flurry of voyages were made into the North Atlantic in search of fish, the fabled Northwest Passage, and beyond into the territories purely imaginary. Today, this vast expanse is crisscrossed with ocean and wind currents, submarine cables and wireless signals, seabirds and passengers, static and cargo ships. In her long awaited poetry debut, award winning digital writer and artist J. R. Carpenter transforms the

Ambit spoke of “the deep humanity running through the book… and a happy determination to get to grips with the messiness of everyday life

These families are terrifying in their complexity and dysfunction yet utterly compelling and convincing and with dark undercurrents of humour that ensure they are never bleak

a new erotic interest in her oldest girlfriend

drawing parallels of displacement

trains rolling

magicians and entertainers

of family loyalty and how a simple act of carelessness can have deeply toxic consequences

well-known forms appear alongside vigorous experiments

He has read his work throughout Ireland

Watching his father

destined to take on the alien threat because nobody else is available

who launched the collection