A Country Without Names by Martin Anderson Simon Perrill  Low interrogates humour’s role

 Low interrogates humour’s role in enacting the possibility of change

It’s very clever and very funny (Neither/Do orgasms last long but they remain popular)

despite its elegance and charm

imagined loves

it will confirm O'Donoghue's place as one of the most approachable and agile voices in contemporary Irish and British poetry

A Country Without Names by Martin Anderson Simon Perrill  Low interrogates humour’s roleA Country Without Names offers a conspectus of human activity from its earliest imagined days and the formation of agrarian state sedentism to our own day. Its tesserae, gathered from beyond the boundaries of a single country or culture, constitute a mosaic in which might be gleaned all the fury and fatuity of the pursuit of that gilded phantasmagoria of a just and beneficent state. Whilst a certain sombreness from Flowering Midnights dark elegy for