The Readiness by Alan Gillis Mairan de Vooght – by one of the

– by one of the greatest poets of all time

for the elegy and the urgency and the prophecy

In some of her most radical work yet

they persist in the beauties of nature

The Readiness by Alan Gillis Mairan de Vooght – by one of theAlan Gillis one of the most admired Irish poets of his generation addresses some of the most pressing concerns of the age: how can we live at the centre of our contemporary paradox, disconnected and hyper connected as we are? A poet of thresholds and crossings, Gillis finds his answers in the suburbs and edgelands, at the hesitation before the doorstep or the gate. The Readiness sites itself at the heart of our human contradictions, and explores their