Phantom Gang by Ciarán O’Rourke Sarah Crossan the drowner revels in his

the drowner revels in his craft

set on a stretch of canal in the Brecon Beacons National Park

she has been a strong presence in the linguistic interweave between the Caribbean and the UK

the humming of cicadas and the various ages she has walked the same road: “sixteen

and in the long poem

Phantom Gang by Ciarán O’Rourke Sarah Crossan the drowner revels in hisWith 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