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Another was prompted by the work of Irish painters in Normandy

Over the course of the collection

The anthology has translations by some of Ireland’s most distinguished poets and translators

shared by Shakespeare

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Eidolon by Sandeep Parmar Michael Murphy Memorial Prize Another was prompted by theWINNER of the Ledbury Forte Prize for Best Second Collection, 2017. Partly a modern revision of the Helen myth, Eidolon meditates on the visible and invisible forces of Western civilisation from classical antiquity to present day America. An Eidolon is an image, a ghost, a spectre, a scapegoat. It is a device, like deus ex machina, to deal with the problem of narrative, specifically Helens supposed deceit and infidelity. The Eidolon, as a device, is