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I had some very slight concerns

Susannah Dickey

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I had some very slight concerns is a collection of eight prosaic poems of far-flung narrative and surrealist wit. From a world overrun with moths to a protagonist who can't stop apologising, these are works of anxiety, culpability, and yearning.

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The understatement in the title is torn apart by the raw exposure of human feelings in the pace and drive of these poems. Susannah Dickey clearly has a talent for hauntingly different language that both moves and resonates. - Pat Edwards, Sabotage Reviews

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This pamphlet blistered with a, at once youthful playfulness, energy and curiosity, and at another; sprawling, singing, doubtful phrases. The most striking thing, for me, about reading and rereading these poems is the poet’s eye for what can be beautiful (and potentially so horrible in the same brush stroke)…and I think my perception of contemporary poetry emerging from the North was a bit laughably primitive, before I read this… - Mícheál McCann

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Susannah Dickey's poetry has appeared online and in print in Ambit, The Scores, The White Review, Poetry Ireland Review, The Tangerine, Hotel. She was the recipient of an SIAP award from the Arts Council in 2018, was shortlisted for The White Review Short Story Prize, and was the winner of the inaugural Verve Poetry Festival competition. She was featured in the Lunar Poetry Podcasts anthology, Why Poetry? (Verve Poetry Press, 2018). She is the author of two poetry pamphlets. 

June 2017

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