Slow Clocks of Decay Norah Hanson John Hennessy

John Hennessy

and brought up in County Antrim

Banipal’s New York reading for Lebanese poets

the dispersal

collection of beasts created by sound-play

Slow Clocks of Decay Norah Hanson John HennessySymphonic in structure and epic in scale, Slow Clocks of Decay explores universal themes through the lens of one of Irelands most imaginative poets. Dealing with crises all too familiar today the loss of friends to suicide; the insidious nature of depression; the inevitability of ageing; and living as an atheist in a society not quite recovered from its quasi theocratic past the book climaxes in a bravura sequence that imagines the poets own final