Birds in November by Daragh Breen Aidan Semmens before they settle into a

before they settle into a pattern or become known

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conveying sensations ‘with an economy of means that is breathtaking… her poems are not merely artefacts

almost like reading a spell

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Birds in November by Daragh Breen Aidan Semmens before they settle into aFrom the Purgatorial state of the epigraph and an opening sequence that riffs on the Navigatio Santi Brendani epic, through Novembers titular birds flitting in and out of existence, to the trawler that seems determined to find some sort of escape at the collections finale, these poems examine various ghost states on which life and death, light and dark hinge. There are also encounters with Armstrong returning from the Moon, Virginia Woolf entering its