SUBCRITICAL TESTS by Ailbhe Darcy and SJ Fowler

“I want to believe there’s something in the basement that’ll save us.”

The nearness of nuclear holocaust, always just one clumsy accident away, forms an entry point into this record of a friendship. The poems in Subcritical Tests stubbornly make connections, ever conscious of the impending threat of annihilation. Oblique, modern, lyrical, humorous, these poems represent the range of Ailbhe Darcy and SJ Fowler’s individual practices, modulated and melded through the collaborative process.

Published by Gorse
96 pages 
148 x 210 mm 
ISBN 9780992804787