If All the World and Love Were Young

Winner of the Forward Prize for Best First Collection
Winner of the E. M. Forster Award
Winner of the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature
Shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize
Shortlisted for the John Pollard Poetry Prize

A Sunday Times, New Statesman and Telegraph Book of the Year 2019

'Every poem in this book is a marvel. Taken all together they make up a work of almost miraculous depth and beauty' Sally Rooney

'A poetry debut fit to compare with Seamus Heaney. This wonderful long poem is up there with the greats' Sunday Times

When Stephen Sexton was young, video games were a way to slip throughthe looking glass; to be in two places at once; to be two people atonce. In these poems about the death of his mother, this moving,otherworldly narrative takes us through the levels of Super Mario World,whose flowered landscapes bleed into our world, and ours, strange withloss, bleed into it. His remarkable debut is a daring exploration ofmemory, grief and the necessity of the unreal.

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This book of poetry is far beyond wondrous. A thing of devastating beauty ... anyone that loves language and has lost someone dear to them will drink this book down like an elixir. Even the book title seems to have an entire symphony in it. Thank you #stephensexton. This book is a gift to anyone that reads it. As it was for me