plastic by Matthew Rice #foliosociety an Ashes classic

an Ashes classic

for anyone who responds to the claims of the imagination at its most searching and rigorous

For Tess Kendrick

’ James Baldwin

He calls for an urgent transformation in our relationship with the natural world

plastic by Matthew Rice #foliosociety an Ashes classicBringing 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