Passport by Richie McCaffery knives forks spoons and bewildered–the wonders of this

and bewildered–the wonders of this new collection are irreducible and stunning

’ - Ted Hughes

the poems’ voices reckon with the things we can’t get hold of (or get rid of) via a kind of reification

Following the multi-award-winning What I Learned from Johnny Bevan

Passport by Richie McCaffery knives forks spoons and bewildered–the wonders of thisExploring place and displacement, boundaries and borders, Passport is the second collection by Richie McCaffery, and follows his acclaimed debut Cairn (Nine Arches Press, 2014). In moving to the Belgian city of Ghent, McCaffery finds What I see and what happens are two different countries. In a place of dualities and unrealities, the poems find the usual definitions themselves becoming unstable; the old currency that is no longer valid, the postcards