Mountebank by Tom Snarsky #totebags and taking in Antarctica too

and taking in Antarctica too

'His work is as much influenced by literary antecedents like William Martin and Anne Stevenson as by more familiar presences like Bunting

and a measured reflection on the Ireland that made him

Telling stories of bizarre familial reckonings and difficult relationships

These poems of war and peace memorialise the horror and the tragedy of conflict

Mountebank by Tom Snarsky #totebags and taking in Antarctica tooMountebank by Tom Snarsky is a sprawling, associative, and tenderly recursive work that explores consciousness, grief, memory, and devotion through a lens both philosophical and playful. Divided into multiple interleaved sections of poems, translations, and small flooded engines, the collection assembles fragments, aphorisms, pastoral traces, and pop cultural detritus into a lattice of lyric and meditative attention. Snarsky's formal restlessness