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and an impassioned defense-cum-dismissal of contemporary hip hop’s convergence with capitalism

meditations

a sweep of white space

Published in the year before her death

plastic Aardvark tremendum waar achter elke boom eenMatthew Rice Set during a single twelve hour night shift in a factory, plastic is a book length poem exploring the life of the industrial worker turned poet. Bringing together memoir, ekphrasis and satire, plastic is based on Matthew Rices experience working in a plastic moulding factory for ten years. Illustrating alienated twenty first century Irish labour in poetic form, plastic engages with the inflictions and implications of a post industrial,