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Drawer of Letters by Ricky Monahan Brown is a wry, elegiac and formally varied collection that navigates illness, grief, intimacy and reinvention with intelligence and bite. Mixing elegy, haiku, lyric fragments and metatextual play, Brown's work is steeped in literary allusion and pop-cultural residue, from Camus and Cenn Fáelad to Bowie and Yuri Gagarin. Whether charting neurotrauma, navigating relationships, or reflecting on historical ruptures and afterlives, the poems move with tonal dexterity between absurdism, lyric grace and sharp wit. This is a collection haunted by loss but sustained by imagination. Drawer of Letters is resolutely mortal, deeply felt, and formally alert.
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About the Author
Ricky Monahan Brown is a writer and poet living in Edinburgh. His memoir, Stroke: A 5% chance of survival, was a Scotsman Nonfiction Book of 2019. The spoken word event he co-founded, Interrobang?! won the 2017 Saboteur Award for Best Regular Spoken Word Night in Britain. His debut fiction collection, Terminal, was published by Sincere Corkscrew in 2024.
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