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If All the World and Love Were Young
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Winner of the Forward Prize for Best First CollectionWinner of the E. M. Forster Award Winner of the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature Shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize Shortlisted for the John Pollard Poetry Prize A Sunday Times, New Statesman and Telegraph Book of the Year 2019’Every poem in this book is a marvel. Taken all together they make up a work of almost miraculous depth and beauty’ Sally Rooney’A poetry debut fit to compare with Seamus Heaney. This wonderful long poem is up there with the greats’ Sunday TimesWhen Stephen Sexton was young, video games were a way to slip through the looking glass; to be in two places at once; to be two people at once. In these poems about the death of his mother, this moving, otherworldly narrative takes us through the levels of Super Mario World, whose flowered landscapes bleed into our world, and ours, strange with loss, bleed into it. His remarkable debut is a daring exploration of memory, grief and the necessity of the unreal.
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| Weight | 0.118 kg |
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| Dimensions | 1 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm |
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| Format | Paperback |
| Language | |
| Pages | 128 |
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| Year Published | 2019-8-29 |
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| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 0141990023 |
| About The Author | Stephen Sexton lives in Belfast. His poems have appeared in Granta, POETRY, and Best British Poetry 2015. His pamphlet, Oils, was the Poetry Book Society's Winter Pamphlet Choice. He was the winner of the 2016 National Poetry Competition, the recipient of an ACES award from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, and was awarded an Eric Gregory Award in 2018. |
The most impressive debut collection of the year so far: beautiful, sincere and unexpectedly heartbreaking |
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| Other text | An astonishing debut…The writing itself hardly draws breath; it's crowded and confident in range and depth…If poetry is "about" anything, then If All the World is about cancer, bereavement, family life, natural and material worlds and the nature of memory. Despite this range it is quite astonishingly through-composed….it is a book to gulp down at one sitting, then to return to, to savour |
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