Space Odes Seamus Cashman The Patron for the first

The Patron for the first year of the Banipal Prize is Mohammed Ahmad Al-Sowaidi

Caroline Pitcher and Gill Vickery

She was deeply involved in the Grenadian revolution and served as a research coordinator for the Government of Grenada

her dreams of becoming a teacher and in writing assiduously to the family in Ireland who act as her aid sponsors

but tackled here in several illuminating sections

Space Odes Seamus Cashman The Patron for the firstRTA Parkers Space Odes is an entertainingly bonkers romp of constellation and collage, writing and re writing its entertainingly allusive way through intertextual space lampooning, deriding, despairing at and celebrating robots, the universe, love and sport (cricket, mostly) in a wonky poetics of anxiety and joy at the world we are thoroughly and catastrophically screwing up. No Catharsis. No bust through into the empyrean. No illumination. It ends