Phantom Gang by Ciarán O’Rourke Seren poet and translator

poet and translator

to end up with a deafening beetle buried for years in her grandfather’s ear

but with the unique perspective of a brilliant new female voice

Winner of the T S Eliot Prize 2020

‘Claire Askew doesn’t mince words: she revels in them

Phantom Gang by Ciarán O’Rourke Seren poet and translatorWith lyric grace and meditative clarity, Phantom Gang offers a daring dissection of civilizational violence in a variety of contexts from the intimate atavisms and inequalities of Irish history to the insidious growth of the global Big Tech economy in the present day alongside deep, sensually delicate explorations of broken love and salvaged memories. Honouring the work of a range of writers and photographers, including John Clare (1793 1864), Martn