Stephen Sexton's pamphlet, Oils (Emma Press, 2014), was the Poetry Book Society's Winter Pamphlet Choice, and his first collection, If All the World and Love Were Young (Penguin, 2019), won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. He was the winner of the 2016 National Poetry Competition, the recipient of an ACES award from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, and was awarded an Eric Gregory Award in 2018.
Such is the scope of the poems included – from the haunting 'The
Death of Horses', to the more satirical 'Credit History', and the
innocence of 'Subimago' – that Oils quickly hooks you with its
ambition. It brings wit, melancholy and irony to the table,
blurring the lines of what we think and know and dream to great
effect.-Clare Savage, Culture Northern Ireland
"...full of imaginative, lyrical, layered poems"-Stephen Payne,
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