Cheryl’s Destinies
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history is what we call / what might have happened differently / and didn’t
It is the decade of centuries, and Cheryl tells us our fortune. Radicals liberate a zoo, teenagers flirt in a bowling alley, and W. B. Yeats discovers the music of The Smashing Pumpkins. It’s almost always the anniversary of something terrible while tourists mosey through the graveyards of the world; the dead are cherished. In this thrillingly strange exploration of the comfort of the fantastical when the real is hard to bear, Stephen Sexton takes us on a journey through the past and the present, while Cheryl translates from the future, showing us how we exist in all three at once.
Praise for Stephen Sexton
“Fleet-footed and irrepressibly charming.”
– The Telegraph Books of the Year
“Sexton is as imaginative as he is controlled, spinning an enduring and trancey tapestry. At once playful and dystopic, hilarious and original— you won’t have read poetry like this. He is a rare talent.”
– Elaine Feeney
“Stephen Sexton makes anything seem possible.”
– Geoff Dyer
Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection
A Financial Times, Irish Times and Telegraph Book of the Year
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history is what we call / what might have happened differently / and didn’t
It is the decade of centuries, and Cheryl tells us our fortune. Radicals liberate a zoo, teenagers flirt in a bowling alley, and W. B. Yeats discovers the music of The Smashing Pumpkins. It’s almost always the anniversary of something terrible while tourists mosey through the graveyards of the world; the dead are cherished. In this thrillingly strange exploration of the comfort of the fantastical when the real is hard to bear, Stephen Sexton takes us on a journey through the past and the present, while Cheryl translates from the future, showing us how we exist in all three at once.
Praise for Stephen Sexton
“Fleet-footed and irrepressibly charming.”
– The Telegraph Books of the Year
“Sexton is as imaginative as he is controlled, spinning an enduring and trancey tapestry. At once playful and dystopic, hilarious and original— you won’t have read poetry like this. He is a rare talent.”
– Elaine Feeney
“Stephen Sexton makes anything seem possible.”
– Geoff Dyer
Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection
A Financial Times, Irish Times and Telegraph Book of the Year
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