54 Questions for the Man Who Sold a Shotgun to My Father is the second pamphlet by British-born Irish poet Joe Carrick-Varty. “Atmospheric, suffused with the blue light of other people’s televisions, these poems, while often devastating, possess a tremendous warmth.Carrick-Varty takes an object/a loved one/a particular moment in time and carefully turns it over and over in his hands.This pamphlet is open-hearted, thoughtful — painfully, beautifully alive to the world and its strange specifics" — Ella Frears"Joe Carrick-Varty's poems don't need permission from anybody.Their exceptional and beautiful vulnerability is a permission all of its own.Each poem contained here demonstrates a mind completely awake to the sadnesses and risks of intimacy, and awake to finding an original vocabulary for articulating these things.A brilliant short collection. I'm utterly convinced of this poet's talent." —Wayne Holloway-Smith