For All We Know by Ciaran Carson Mark Ford the realm of the dead

the realm of the dead and the lives of others: cosmonauts swim in distant space

Alan Dent is a poet

are interwoven into a bountiful poetic fibre

gravity and light

Jack Mapanje

For All We Know by Ciaran Carson Mark Ford the realm of the deadShortly after a man and a woman meet for the first time in a second hand clothes shop in Belfast, a bomb goes off. It is some time in the 1970s. They become lovers. For All We Know is their story, told in the recent past: a meditation on love, place, memory, loss and language, how people know each other, misunderstand each other, or translate each other, not to mention the events and circumstances which are beyond their control. Gesturing towards a