I Want Something Other Than Time Nessa O'Mahony in discovering such common patterns

in discovering such common patterns as the loss of innocence

Tom’s whole life is straight out of Crap Towns

Some seem to have sought connections to dead relatives who live on in memory or genetic inheritance

passion and verbal dexterity’ (Merryn Williams)

I Want Something Other Than Time Nessa O'Mahony in discovering such common patternsAcross a series of sixty four poems, each titled with the eponymous refrain, I Want Something Other Than Time worries the problem of self identicalitythe distance between the self and the self that recognizes the selfinto the socio political sphere as a problem of temporality, as the work of our shared subjects in perceiving and projecting pasts, futures, presents.