Silk Work Philip Wilson Steer Fintan O'Toole

Fintan O'Toole

issue of emigration and the unresolved history of the Second World War

They toy with our interpretations of ‘at table’

A series of luminous

Silk Work Philip Wilson Steer Fintan O'TooleIn Silk Work, Imogen Cassels debut collection, desire and grief are a double edged subject, elucidated through a kind of lyric diffidence. Forms, translations, folksongs, geographies of longing, and the work of memory are interplayed, though always with the haunting implication that the words we use to document our lives are never quite enough. As they weave multiple sources from literature, philosophy, visual art and history into ways of reading and