Birds in November by Daragh Breen Aidan Semmens As readers we see that

As readers we see that our experiences find an echo in others'

is built around a series of family photographs

Clyne explores Jewish and lesbian identity

before they settle into a pattern or become known

almost like reading a spell

Birds in November by Daragh Breen Aidan Semmens As readers we see thatFrom 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