Votive by Keiran Goddard Keiran Goddard digs deep for grains of

digs deep for grains of common sense and plumbs the depths of our conscience to ascertain how truly awake we really are

through patterns of interference

and even somewhat beyond

as conclusive proof of his insanity

It’s a beautiful book' – Adam Zagajewski

Votive by Keiran Goddard Keiran Goddard digs deep for grains ofTurning on the drawn out thread of a relationship in freefall, the poems in Votive, the skilful and seductive second collection by Keiran Goddard, are small prayers uttered out of an ambiguous faith. They are dreams, visions, and hallucinations; the body is made a bonsai tree, the sea hisses into the spaces between the lines, the voice speaks invocations to the minute. These poems are granular things that flow freely when touched. Unapologetically