The Thinking-About-Gladys Machine Kevin M.F. Platt shows a poet trying to

shows a poet trying to reconcile his rural heritage with an Ireland in the process of transition

Full of vivid descriptive passages of life in the fictional mining valley

Sophia begins to investigate a dangerous web of ‘State Plan 14

It is about the relationships between two sisters across Catalunya

alone in the middle of the night

The Thinking-About-Gladys Machine Kevin M.F. Platt shows a poet trying toLevreros writing is distinguished by its bounteous imagination, and nowhere more so than in this 1970 story collection. From the Escher like grammatical maze of The Boarding House to the Lewis Carroll esque The Basement, this book explores uncanny domestic spaces, using the structures of the stories themselves as tools for re inventing narrative possibility. Stories that play with space, an absurd space when looked at with logic. And that is exactly