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Unstoppable Utopia is a collection of 12 poems that react to many of the contradictions of contemporary life: the connectivity and isolation, freedom and constriction, and cohesion and fracture. The first section, Work, features 6 interconnected poems exploring a work night out via 6 different perspectives. We find the narrator of Work Up in the midst of a panic attack, while the narrator of Work Away is quietly coming to terms with the meaningless of work. But each narrator is preoccupied with what it means to be forced into daily interactions with others for the sake of earning money, with all the complexity and personal compromises that entails. In the second section, Life, the quiet contemplation is in stark contrast to the chaos of the previous section. These 6 independent poems contain themes of aging, isolation, longing, resistance, and acceptance in a pandemic-ravaged world. In Plastics, the narrator laments their living conditions within a species on the brink of annihilation, and in Plague Times a Proustian reflection on age and memory is channeled through '90s sci-fi TV shows and social distancing.

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Cassandra Moss was born in Manchester and grew up just outside the city. She studied English With Film at King's College London and subsequently gained a place on the Action! training scheme at Working Title Films. She then worked as an EFL teacher. After moving to Dublin to complete an MPhil in Linguistics at Trinity College Dublin, she now works as a linguist. Her writing has appeared in numerous publications, including Interpret Magazine, Spectra Poets, Lumina Journal, .pdf mag, SINK Magazine, and New York Quarterly. She has been shortlisted for the Creative Writing Ink Poetry Prize, long-listed for the Fish Publishing Poetry Prize, and nominated for Best of the Net. She is a recipient of the Agility Award.

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