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to end up with a deafening beetle buried for years in her grandfather’s ear

or the unearthing of the class divide at the gravesides of plague victims

a wary fox and a wise horse who find themselves together

a ‘Mary Sue’ is an idealised and implausibly flawless character: a female archetype that can infuriate audiences for its perceived narcissism

Phantom Gang by Ciarán O’Rourke Seren to end up with aWith lyric grace and meditative clarity, Phantom Gang offers a daring dissection of civilizational violence in a variety of contexts from the intimate atavisms and inequalities of Irish history to the insidious growth of the global Big Tech economy in the present day alongside deep, sensually delicate explorations of broken love and salvaged memories. Honouring the work of a range of writers and photographers, including John Clare (1793 1864), Martn