End Ceremonies by Stuart McPherson Patrick Worsnip Phantom Gang confirms O’Rourke as

Phantom Gang confirms O’Rourke as a leading new voice in Irish poetry

liberation and self-claiming are urgently generous

' – Christopher Reid

’ – Hayden Murphy

This poetry anthology provides the antidote

End Ceremonies by Stuart McPherson Patrick Worsnip Phantom Gang confirms O’Rourke asEnd Ceremonies by Stuart McPherson is at times tender, at times wounded, the poems exploding outwards into a galaxy of miraculous imagery and an infinitude of Octopus eyes". The themes are often dark, fighting bare fisted with the dualities found within self discovery and identity, but written in such compelling, haunted, and hypnotic tones, that the work becomes irresistible. These are poems of closure and rebirth, where the "shapes of ghosts demand