End Ceremonies by Stuart McPherson Patrick Worsnip The story then follows the

The story then follows the private lives of townspeople encircled by public violence: a newly married couple

’ – Hayden Murphy

This poetry anthology provides the antidote

liberation and self-claiming are urgently generous

End Ceremonies by Stuart McPherson Patrick Worsnip The story then follows theEnd Ceremonies by Stuart McPherson is at times tender, at times wounded, the poems exploding outwards into a galaxy of miraculous imagery and an infinitude of Octopus eyes". The themes are often dark, fighting bare fisted with the dualities found within self discovery and identity, but written in such compelling, haunted, and hypnotic tones, that the work becomes irresistible. These are poems of closure and rebirth, where the "shapes of ghosts demand