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54 Questions for the Man Who Sold a Shotgun to My Father
About this book
54 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
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THE CHILDREN
on the muted screen a ball lands
one side of a line
and this means that a person has won
the camera jiggles
zooms out refocuses on a crowd
who are cheering
which means that a person has won
yes clapping
back smacking drink dropping
all signifiers
that yep a ball has landed
one side of a line
one side not one side but ONE
SIDE of course right
because a person has won
a ball has landed
people are happy and although this is not
a metaphor for grief
I cannot deny that a ball not a ball but
THE BALL
has landed is landing will land
until it stops being
THE BALL and starts being a ball
at the edge of
a roofless room lots of people are
jumping around in-
side of lots of sound lots of screens
lots of open sky and
did I mention my dad has taken a
shotgun to a field
and I haven’t realised because I am
watching tennis
which means my dad has decided
is deciding
will decide to become not a dad
but THE DAD
is asking a man for a shotgun is
saying can I buy
yes bring me this much and it’s a
man from the pub
someone I’ll walk past for years
which means I am
existing in relation to this moment
my sister is
eating a choc ice romping around
the garden holding
a toad in relation to this pocket of
time my mum
zipping up our puffer jackets pulling
down our hats
while my dad walks through rain
to an ATM
leaves a room with a shotgun in a
duffle bag
this moment almost encased in
glass
this skyscraper I am not really watching
tennis inside of
not on my lunch break not
twenty six
but nine years old being pu...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- And God said
- Sambas for Christmas
- Dear Postie
- When he waits at the bar my father’s brain is miles above his pint
- Withdrawal
- THE CHILDREN
- More Sky
- The Father Heavens
- All my fathers are hunting dodos in the park
- 54 Questions for the Man Who Sold a Shotgun to My Father
- Lamech
- There’s a Person Reflected on the TV Calling their Dad
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