It Says Here by Sean O'Brien Forward prizes In Afterwardness its pull became

In Afterwardness its pull became irresistible

his poems ‘begin in Kansas and end in Oz’

inviting and rewarding rereading

“Where the Light Is”

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It Says Here by Sean O'Brien Forward prizes In Afterwardness its pull becameIt Says Here is Sean OBriens follow up to his celebrated collection Europa, and has a vision as rich and wide ranging as its predecessor. Set against shorter, ruthlessly focused pieces vicious and scabrous political sketches and satires charting the growth of extremism and the disintegration of democracy are meditations on the imaginative life, dream and remembrance, time and recurrence. There are elegies for friends and fellow poets; paranoiac,