An Unfinished Sufficiency Brendan Kennelly or a fluid free verse

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sexuality and giant squid

Samuel Shimon

Turing and Tiresias

An Unfinished Sufficiency Brendan Kennelly or a fluid free verseRuth OCallaghans poetry has a rare ability to sustain the highest emotional and spiritual stakes. Fiona Sampson. Philosophical, exuberant, incantatory, sensual and meditative, these poems embrace the complexities of death, loss and love. Although observed with a detached eye their unflinching truth is simultaneously intimate and compassionate. The poems, written in both formal and free verse, constantly explore the boundaries within the human