Long Pass by Joey Connolly Joey Francis mortality and darkness with a

mortality and darkness with a precise and lyrical vision that also sees the light

Arundhathi Subramaniam

Mesrop Mashtots

there are quieter poems where the contrast between first and third worlds pricks the conscience as with the Brazilian cleaner

Long Pass by Joey Connolly Joey Francis mortality and darkness with aAch! I misspoke. What I mean to say is this In Long Pass, Joey Connollys first collection, the poet in love, in puzzlement, in frustration or in elegy keeps catching himself out, starting again. He wants to speak truthfully. He wants to say things simply. But nothing is as simple as it seems at first. Nothing strikes the interlocutor quite as he intends. Ach! He goes back. Deflections, tangents: the long pass, the long unfolding sentence, the growing