ARGONAUT BOOKS

Slipping between eras and time zones, closing the gap between the real and the fantastical, the academic and the everyday, the parish and the polis, McKendry's exhilarating debut collection comes to terms with generational trauma, social decay and the rituals of a place with a fraught history and an uncertain future. Invoking the balaclava'd gunmen, urban warlords and explosions which gripped the decades either side of the Good Friday Agreement, 'Gub' drags the language of ghettoised Belfast into serious Irish poetry. Reviews Gub is unlike anything I have ever read. In a pla...Read More