Phantom Gang by Ciarán O’Rourke Sarah Crossan and in the long poem

and in the long poem

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

wry and true about topics usually either ignored or obscured with greyness and cliché

the drowner revels in his craft

and a poetic letter addressed to a ‘Dear Mr Gove’

Phantom Gang by Ciarán O’Rourke Sarah Crossan and in the long poemWith 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