The Irish Literary Times

Nothing is as it seems in John W. Sexton’s fifth and most scintillating collection to date, The Offspring of the Moon. Through the alchemy of Sexton’s imagination, the everyday is transmuted into art. Among the people and creatures to be met in the collection is a sandman, a mermaid, several cats, a cloak of owls, William Blake’s vision of ghost fleas, the unintentional portents of a magician, Aladdin releasing Djinn from an egg over breakfast and an angel who lives on the tip of a pin in a house of golden thread. Questions of belief and imaginative freedom are approached from unlikely angles. From the man who brought us the cult RTE radio series The Ivory Tower, John W. Sexton continues to find significance in the marginal, the endangered, the apocryphal and the downright absurd.