Eidolon by Sandeep Parmar Michael Murphy Memorial Prize The anthology has translations by

The anthology has translations by some of Ireland’s most distinguished poets and translators

Susan Utting’s poems are proud lovers of sound

his first period of exile in New Zealand

as inspiration and as a moral and political handbook

inhuman and hollow

Eidolon by Sandeep Parmar Michael Murphy Memorial Prize The anthology has translations byWINNER of the Ledbury Forte Prize for Best Second Collection, 2017. Partly a modern revision of the Helen myth, Eidolon meditates on the visible and invisible forces of Western civilisation from classical antiquity to present day America. An Eidolon is an image, a ghost, a spectre, a scapegoat. It is a device, like deus ex machina, to deal with the problem of narrative, specifically Helens supposed deceit and infidelity. The Eidolon, as a device, is