If All the World and Love were Young by Stephen Sexton Carcanet Press filled with passion

filled with passion

loss and longing

” These essays also remind us that without the enthusiasm

by Frank Ormsby

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If All the World and Love were Young by Stephen Sexton Carcanet Press filled with passion'Every poem in this book is a marvel. Taken all together they make up a work of almost miraculous depth and beauty' Sally Rooney Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection When 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