Slow Clocks of Decay Abdel Aziz Jassim Winner of an Academy of

Winner of an Academy of American Poets Prize and other awards

and Ostentation of Peacock is a full display of his transatlantic talent

London University and St Mary’s University College

Wayne Holloway-Smith

The End of Napoleon’s Nose

Slow Clocks of Decay Abdel Aziz Jassim Winner of an Academy ofSymphonic in structure and epic in scale, Slow Clocks of Decay explores universal themes through the lens of one of Irelands most imaginative poets. Dealing with crises all too familiar today the loss of friends to suicide; the insidious nature of depression; the inevitability of ageing; and living as an atheist in a society not quite recovered from its quasi theocratic past the book climaxes in a bravura sequence that imagines the poets own final