For All We Know by Ciaran Carson Ishion Hutchinson What Astley and Robertson-Pearce have

What Astley and Robertson-Pearce have created for poetry readers is an opportunity to witness some of the most important poets in the English language giving voice to their own work

“To be deeply serious

by the brutal trial and error of stand-up

It is a wry and tender study of romantic possibility

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For All We Know by Ciaran Carson Ishion Hutchinson What Astley and Robertson-Pearce haveShortly after a man and a woman meet for the first time in a second hand clothes shop in Belfast, a bomb goes off. It is some time in the 1970s. They become lovers. For All We Know is their story, told in the recent past: a meditation on love, place, memory, loss and language, how people know each other, misunderstand each other, or translate each other, not to mention the events and circumstances which are beyond their control. Gesturing towards a