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Questions for the Man Who Sold a Shotgun to My Father is the second
pamphlet by British-born Irish poet Joe Carrick-Varty. “Atmospheric, suffused with the blue light of other people’s televisions,
these poems, while often devastating, possess a tremendous
warmth. Carrick-Varty takes an object/a loved one/a particular moment in
time and carefully turns it over and over in his hands. This pamphlet
is open-hearted, thoughtful — painfully, beautifully alive to the world
and its strange specifics" — Ella Frears
"Joe Carrick-Varty's
poems don't need permission from anybody. Their exceptional and
beautiful vulnerability is a permission all of its own. Each poem contained
here demonstrates a mind completely awake to the sadnesses and risks of
intimacy, and awake to finding an original vocabulary for articulating
these things. A brilliant short collection. I'm utterly convinced of this
poet's talent." —Wayne Holloway-Smith