The Slipping Forecast by Ross Thompson american 'His work is as much

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The Slipping Forecast by Ross Thompson american 'His work is as muchPublished 2nd April 2025. In his second collection, Northern Irish poet Ross Thompson reflects upon disappearance: the vanishing acts of people, places and the past itself through fire, frost or forgetting. The Slipping Forecast is a book haunted by spectres of the unsaid and unrequited, by phantoms of the nearly was and the could have been, a book that inhabits the in between states of memory, dream and woozy post surgery anaesthetic where liminal