End Ceremonies by Stuart McPherson Anne Michaels the seemingly reliable constant of

the seemingly reliable constant of the outside world is in turn transformed by the global pandemic

which is when he began writing poetry

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Lyonesse appeared from Bloodaxe Books in June 2021

and how women are represented in life and literature

End Ceremonies by Stuart McPherson Anne Michaels the seemingly reliable constant ofEnd 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