Oils by Stephen Sexton

Oils by Stephen Sexton

Oils is a gorgeous, beguiling collection of poems where the poise of the delivery belies the emotional, existential turmoil within.

Through his portraits of an atheist, a pickpocket and a spinach-loving sailor (among others), Stephen Sexton evokes a strange kind of melancholy as he strives to reconcile passion with detachment and profound self-doubt with unwavering love.

Such is the scope of the poems included – from the haunting 'The Death of Horses', to the more satirical 'Credit History', and the innocence of 'Subimago' – that Oils quickly hooks you with its ambitionIt brings wit, melancholy and irony to the table, blurring the lines of what we think and know and dream to great effect.

-Clare Savage, Culture Northern Ireland

"...full of imaginative, lyrical, layered poems"

-Stephen Payne, Sabotage Reviews

Stephen Sexton's pamphlet, Oils (Emma Press, 2014), was the Poetry Book Society's Winter Pamphlet Choice, and his first collection, If All the World and Love Were Young (Penguin, 2019), won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. He was the winner of the 2016 National Poetry Competition, the recipient of an ACES award from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, and was awarded an Eric Gregory Award in 2018.

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ISBN 13	9781910139035
ISBN 10	1910139033
Title	Oils
Author	Stephen Sexton
Series	The Emma Press Poetry Pamphlets
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	The Emma Press
Year published	2014-10-01
Number of pages	36
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