The Recycling by Joey Connolly J H Prynne Innocence is exchanged for adulthood

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The Recycling by Joey Connolly J H Prynne Innocence is exchanged for adulthoodJoey Connolly's second book of poems focuses on dissolution and aftermath. It roams across forms and history, grieves for a relationship that broke down, and it is haunted by climate anxiety. The Recycling asks if the specific occasions of this particular book circling round heartbreak, the solaces of art and the natural world only deflect the abiding terror of a dying planet in what he calls 'humankind's millenarian agriculture of want'. Riffing on