This second collection by Northern Irish poet Adam Crothers and winner of the Seamus Heaney Prize includes sonnets and prose poems, anxiety and swagger, confession and nonsense.

"Several Deer" is the debut collection of a young Northern Irish poet. As much indebted to Bob Dylan and Lana Del Rey as to Emily Dickinson and George Herbert, Crothers writes about destruction, consumption, misogyny, gods, sex, failure, and rock 'n'...