Space Odes Seamus Cashman and at times achingly poignant

and at times achingly poignant tale combines earthy humour

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Space Odes Seamus Cashman and at times achingly poignantRTA Parkers Space Odes is an entertainingly bonkers romp of constellation and collage, writing and re writing its entertainingly allusive way through intertextual space lampooning, deriding, despairing at and celebrating robots, the universe, love and sport (cricket, mostly) in a wonky poetics of anxiety and joy at the world we are thoroughly and catastrophically screwing up. No Catharsis. No bust through into the empyrean. No illumination. It ends