Hymn to the Reckless by Erin Fornoff Seren Stuart Maconie and Helen Mort

Stuart Maconie and Helen Mort will ferry you on your way with short prose pieces inspired by the theme – a literary bar-hop

Here the text or the poem is a swimming pool

Lounging in a Pinter script or pitched from a transit vans rolled-down window

In ‘Approaching Sixty’

As her captors take her ever deeper into the jungle

Hymn to the Reckless by Erin Fornoff Seren Stuart Maconie and Helen MortHymn to the Reckless, the debut collection of poems by American born Erin Fornoff, traces an arc from youthful adventures in the Appalachian mountains to a confrontation with lifes complexities, not least in the radically transformed America of recent times. Moving between that America and her present 'Home from Home in Ireland, Fornoff finds a kind of consolation in community, while struggling to bridge the ever widening gap between what is and what