plastic Aardvark tremendum when she came to see

when she came to see poetry as irrevocably flawed as a means of expression

energetic verse defies categorization and embraces a worldly lyricism all Rodefer’s own

incantatory cadences of the original

totdat hij Dianina opmerkt

the music of the line

plastic Aardvark tremendum when she came to seeMatthew Rice Set during a single twelve hour night shift in a factory, plastic is a book length poem exploring the life of the industrial worker turned poet. Bringing together memoir, ekphrasis and satire, plastic is based on Matthew Rices experience working in a plastic moulding factory for ten years. Illustrating alienated twenty first century Irish labour in poetic form, plastic engages with the inflictions and implications of a post industrial,