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Matthew Rice - Rooms By The Sea

from A Silent War by Ross Thompson And Others

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Written by Ross Thompson

Read by Matthew Rice

Matthew Rice was born in Belfast. His poems have appeared in Poetry Ireland Review, Asheville Poetry Review, The Tangerine, and in the anthology The Best New British and Irish Poets 2017. He was runner-up for the Seamus Heaney Award for New Writing 2017 and was selected for the Poetry Ireland Introductions Series the same year. He was the recipient of a SIAP award from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland 2017/18. Work is forthcoming in The Dark Horse and The White Review.

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This inverted space croons like an ocarina
as a cat’s paw sweeps through my careening

beachside home, suspended, as if by balloons,
past billowing waters and shifting dunes

to the great beyond. Slow days were once infrequent.
Now, it tastes all the more sublime to relinquish...

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from A Silent War, released May 29, 2020

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Ross Thompson Bangor, UK

Northern Irish writer.

Debut collection Threading The Light available now from Dedalus Press.

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