The Sun is Open Jan Owen the battle lines during the

the battle lines during the war

Alain Suied

Several of the poems in Gen have already won prizes

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Peter Vacher’s talent lies in being able to capture their authentic voices

The Sun is Open Jan Owen the battle lines during theThe Sun is Open sifts through a boxed archive of public and private materials related to the life and death of the authors father, who was murdered by the IRA outside their Belfast home in 1984. Moving between child and adult voices, past and present, this startlingly innovative debut attempts to decode the fragments left behind and, with them, piece together a history and a life. Each page of The Sun Is Open is rich with exquisite and surprising