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history is what we call / what might have happened differently / and didn'tIt is the decade of centuries, and Cheryl tells us our fortune. Radicals liberate a zoo, teenagers flirt in a bowling alley, and the dead are cherished. In these inventive, playful, dream-like poems, Stephen Sexton takes us on a journey through the past and the present, while Cheryl translates from the future, showing us how we exist in all three at once.Reckoning with ...

Winner of the Forward Prize for Best First CollectionA Sunday Times, New Statesman and Telegraph Book of the Year 2019'Every poem in this book is a marvel. Taken all together they make up a work of almost miraculous depth and beauty' Sally Rooney'A poetry debut fit to compare with Seamus Heaney. This wonderful long poem is up there with the greats' Sunday TimesWhen Stephen Sexton was young, video games were a way to slip through the looking gl...

Oils is the debut pamphlet of the award-winning Stephen Sexton. It is a gorgeous, beguiling collection of poems. Through his portraits of an atheist, a pickpocket and a spinach-loving sailor (among others), Sexton evokes a strange kind of melancholy as he strives to reconcile passion with detachment and profound self-doubt with unwavering love.