The Sun Is Open

'The Sun is Open' pieces through a boxed archive of public and private materials related to the life and death of Gail McConnell's father, who was murdered by the IRA outside their Belfast home in 1984. Flitting between a child and adult self, this startling, innovative debut charts the experience of going through the box, as the poems attempt to decode the past and present, and piece together a history, and a life.