plastic by Matthew Rice Pere Gimferrer a most tender

a most tender

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and putting them back together so that we see them in an entirely different light

plastic by Matthew Rice Pere Gimferrer a most tenderBringing together memoir, ekphrasis, and satire, PLASTIC is based on Matthew Rice's experience working in a plastic molding factory for ten years. Illustrating alienated twenty first century Irish labour in poetic form, PLASTIC engages with the inflictions and implications of a 'post industrial,' 'post Troubles' society, all while weaving in depictions of factory work from literature, film, and the visual arts. PLASTIC is a poem about feeling a