Embark by Sean O'Brien Julia Deakin the elective mutism of a

the elective mutism of a traumatised school girl

McCullough ranges across birdlife

And it’s this toughness

muscular poetry poetry shifted territory with time

Embark by Sean O'Brien Julia Deakin the elective mutism of aA new collection by Sean OBrien Audens true inheritor, and one of our wisest poetic chronographers is not just a literary event, but also, invariably, a reckoning of the times. Given the nature of our times, his voice is an essential one: there is no other poet currently writing with OBriens intellectual authority, historical literacy and sheer command of the facts. Embark also registers our unique cultural climacteric, where the larger crises of the