Normal human life takes place in a world very unlike Sídhe and Tír na nÓg. This magical place is where faeries dwell, the Wild Hunt goes on, and bodies never age. Alex Ness takes the reader into The Gray with poems about life and death, and love.
Much of the poetry reiterates itself, and thus, this collection could've been much shorter and no worse for the wear. The style is pleasant, dream-like, full of longing and passion.
My favorites were a brief series (nos. vii-ix), which seem to suggest that we could achieve the utopia that is the world of the fae if we could only just end the eternal wanting and just be.
This collection was nominated for the 2016 Elgin award.