Crisis Actor by Declan Ryan #joyce GrantaISBN: 9781783789160Extent: 400 pages

GrantaISBN: 9781783789160Extent: 400 pages

and she can't escape her reputation as the deadliest dragon in Pyrrhia

empty house to answer it

but each of them is wounded in different ways

Crisis Actor by Declan Ryan #joyce GrantaISBN: 9781783789160Extent: 400 pagesSHORTLISTED FOR THE SEAMUS FIRST COLLECTION POETRY PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE JOHN POLLARD FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL POETRY PRIZE 'Who knew that writing with this degree of care and pain and tact was still possible? For my money it's the best first volume in decades, I would say since Tom Paulin's A State of Justice (1977): no dead weight, foot perfect and engaging.' Michael Hofmann, Times Literary Supplement, Books of the YearCrisis Actor chronicles