plastic by Matthew Rice Pere Gimferrer and into its afterlife

and into its afterlife

and putting them back together so that we see them in an entirely different light

including many talismanic personal survival poems suggested by our readers

David Harsent’s thirteen collections have won a number of awards

plastic by Matthew Rice Pere Gimferrer and into its afterlifeBringing together memoir, ekphrasis, and satire, PLASTIC is based on Matthew Rice's experience working in a plastic molding factory for ten years. Illustrating alienated twenty first century Irish labour in poetic form, PLASTIC engages with the inflictions and implications of a 'post industrial,' 'post Troubles' society, all while weaving in depictions of factory work from literature, film, and the visual arts. PLASTIC is a poem about feeling a