If All the World and Love were Young by Stephen Sexton Paul Sutherland Emily Berry’s Dear Boy was

Emily Berry’s Dear Boy was described as a ‘blazing debut’

But these poems delve deeper again

Over the last 15 years

Derek Mahon singled out Romer’s first collection Idols for its ‘emotional candour and intellectual clarity’

and the ‘peculiar state of exiled human

If All the World and Love were Young by Stephen Sexton Paul Sutherland Emily Berry’s Dear Boy was'Every poem in this book is a marvel. Taken all together they make up a work of almost miraculous depth and beauty' Sally Rooney Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection When Stephen Sexton was young, video games were a way to slip through the looking glass; to be in two places at once; to be two people at once. In these poems about the death of his mother, this moving, otherworldly narrative takes us through the levels of Super