forget thee Andrew Whitehead ‘A novel that opens up

‘A novel that opens up a window

between nights and mornings

murders and an alternative economy based on drug trafficking

The next issue of Poetry Ireland Review contains ten illuminating responses from contemporary poets to a question suggested by Patrick Kavanagh almost sixty years ago: Do we value poets in Ireland

forget thee Andrew Whitehead ‘A novel that opens upIn forget thee, Dreiblatts first full length book of poetry, an anonymous narrator ruminates on the end of the world, while conversing with various historic and literary figures from the ancient Mediterranean and Mesopotamian worlds. Going behind writing to start language afresh, they observe together how often worlds end; how language is the register in time of our answerability to each other; how writing, sociality, play, violence, and transcendence