On an orchid farm devastated by the worst hurricane in Florida's living memory, Swallow, an undocumented Irish migrant and ex-marine, faces a reckoning in the hunt for an endangered, and invaluable, ghost orchid
PAUL PERRY is the author of five full length collections of poetry including Gunpowder Valentine: New and Selected Poems, and two pamphlets of poetry from above /ground press The Ghosts of Barnacullia, and Blindsight. A recipient of the Patrick and Katherine Kavanagh Fellowship, he is also a novelist. He directs the Creative Writing Programme at University College Dublin.