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By (author) Matthew Rice

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Set during a single twelve-hour night shift in a factory,Â plasticÂ is a book-length poem exploring the life of the industrial worker turned poet. Bringing together memoir, ekphrasis and satire,Â BplasticÂ is based on Matthew Riceâ€™s experience working in a plastic moulding factory for ten years. Illustrating alienated twenty-first-century Irish labour in poetic form,Â plasticÂ engages with the inflictions and implications of a â€˜post-industrialâ€™, â€˜post-Troublesâ€™ society, all while weaving in depictions of factory work from literature, film and the visual arts. Time-stamped to highlight the claustrophobia of the workerâ€™s experience, this is a poem about feeling a calling while being submerged in the world of menial labour â€“ making plastic airplane parts by night, making poetry by day, uniting what Jacques RanciÃ¨re calls the â€˜labourers in love with the intellectual nightsâ€™ and those â€˜intellectuals in love with the toilsome and glorious days of the labouring people.â€™ plasticâ€™s evocation and lucidity moves with grace through working class realities and hopeful imaginings.

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