plastic by Matthew Rice Ben North she is a lustful seductress

she is a lustful seductress luring men to a path of corruption

is a fever dream: the borders between past and present

Since Kwame Dawes first published his prestigious Forward Poetry prize-winning Progeny of Air in 1994

her unique edition of The Hunting of the Snark was forgotten

Deborah Alma's debut Dirty Laundry

plastic by Matthew Rice Ben North she is a lustful seductressBringing together memoir, ekphrasis, and satire, PLASTIC is based on Matthew Rice's experience working in a plastic molding 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,' 'post Troubles' society, all while weaving in depictions of factory work from literature, film, and the visual arts. PLASTIC is a poem about feeling a