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Sheridan’s writing is wrenching, tortured and bleakly vivid. Sheridan’s poems dwell upon violence, death and the devil. He frequently places searingly modern issues and events within a traditional rhyme scheme. The poems in this book contain highly emotionally charged content. ?Void’ exhibits a tension between the formless and the contained. Whilst, conceptually, this poem deals with the amorphous, its rhyme scheme physically contradicts the features of a void.

Other of the works are stylistically looser, the fin de siècle monologues of a tortured brain. The devil is a frequent figure in the poems, and Sheridan exploits this character’s iconic status by using him to represent a multitude of evils, the most fundamental of which is the human mind:

My mind began to break from within/Let me go and get far away from him’.

Decay ultimately comes from within. The ?death’ poems of Sheridan’s works are striking and unusual, combining a certain eighteenth century sense of horror with a twentieth century fear of nothing. Sheridan is a writer who is unafraid of representing the darker side of life.