The Offspring of the Moon; John W. Sexton (Salmon Poetry)

In his fifth collection, John W. Sexton speaks to the deeply-rooted traditions of the Irish literary imagination: from the myths of pre-Christian times, through the Gothic horrors of Stoker and Le Fanu, to the early sci-fi romance of Fitz-James O'Brien and M.P. Shiel. These are poems of the altered mind, the cosmic journey, the subversion of logic and science. Yet for all their absorbing forays into the visionary, each work remains anchored by a profound and often painful wisdom.