Votive by Keiran Goddard Roddy Lumsden Declan Ryan

Declan Ryan

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Little Gods established Jacob Polley as one of the leading talents of the younger generation

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These are poems to wander about in and to take your time with as your eyes adjust to their particular light

Votive by Keiran Goddard Roddy Lumsden Declan RyanTurning on the drawn out thread of a relationship in freefall, the poems in Votive, the skilful and seductive second collection by Keiran Goddard, are small prayers uttered out of an ambiguous faith. They are dreams, visions, and hallucinations; the body is made a bonsai tree, the sea hisses into the spaces between the lines, the voice speaks invocations to the minute. These poems are granular things that flow freely when touched. Unapologetically