This Hall of Several Tortures by Reuben Woolley Eoghan Walls and the artist Tàpies all

and the artist Tàpies all appear in his pages

His poetry is a marvel of syncretism: Billie Holiday

sometimes those of others such as St

the richness of nature as experienced by a child

The poems celebrate the rituals of the working and labouring classes

This Hall of Several Tortures by Reuben Woolley Eoghan Walls and the artist Tàpies allIve never read a collection where the spacing between words works so well. That phrase is so often a cliche, but not here. The sense of haunting, of an absence (i dance on horizons and dont cast shadows) then a fleeting presence is handled brilliantly, with the reader aware (just enough) of multiple voices. The repeated she said is used eerily and almost hypnotically, and the writing has moments of intense beauty, but never enough to settle the