Panic Response Stephen Brown Constable and Gainsborough on his

Constable and Gainsborough on his work

those who wrote about the “wrong” things

past and present

And sport’s the stuff of family lore – the wrong turn at Ballybrit that led to Connemara instead of the Galway Races

her long-awaited return

Panic Response Stephen Brown Constable and Gainsborough on hisFrom the mercurial mind of award winning poet John McCullough comes his darkest and most experimental book to date. Panic Response puts personal and cultural anxiety under the microscope. It is full of things that shimmer, quiver and fizz: plankton glowing at low tide; brain tissue turning to glass; a basketball emerging from the waves, covered in barnacles. These are poems of uncertainty but also of hope, which move beyond the breathlessness of panic