Lives of the Saints by Mícheál McCann Jay Bernard A Marginal Sea is written

A Marginal Sea is written from the vantage point of Ynys Môn/Anglesey

She points out the absurdities we've grown too used to and lets us see the world with fresh eyes’ Kae Tempest

In a setting similar to Ken Kesey’s One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest and based on true cases

will they exist by the time / it’s irreversible

Lives of the Saints by Mícheál McCann Jay Bernard A Marginal Sea is writtenAs in his rapturously received first collection, Devotion, in which Mchel McCann took a classic Irish elegy and applied it to contemporary Belfast so, in Lives of the Saints, he takes biographical details of religious figures and situates them in current states of experience and feeling. Centrepieces of this eclectic collection are an ode to a recycling centre and 'The Impossible Request' in which the author's grandmother forgets that he has told her