All the Pretty Lights by Gerry McGrath YA Interspersing fragments from Robert Browning’s

Interspersing fragments from Robert Browning’s own poetry into his own and seemingly interweaving his visions with those of the Victorian poet

at age sixty-six

Nothing is framed or neat

and a call to open up a dialogue about masculinity that is inclusive

Winner of the 2015 Michael Murphy Memorial Prize

All the Pretty Lights by Gerry McGrath YA Interspersing fragments from Robert Browning’sAll the Pretty Lights is a revelation, a book of poems which speaks to many worlds while finding a common ground for all. Here Gerry McGrath's poems manage to balance, often on a knife edge, between the typical and the weird, the domestic and the otherworldly, the ordinary and the metaphysical. All the Pretty Lights does what the best poetry is supposed to do: it enlarges the reader's universe, and helps us find answers to the eternal mysteries of