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The Testimony of Night is a long poem that confronts the nature of violence, from the horrors of war, to the heartache and terror of domestic abuse.Within these pages you will read one of Ulster’s darkest chapters and learn of the poet’s childhood struggle, against terrifying odds, to keep his sanity and life, of how his brothers and sisters had been subjected to appalling abuse right under the nose of Ulster’s social services, an agency that refuses to investigate these horrific crimes. The Holocaust, 9/11, the Iraq war, the Bush administration, the Inquisition, the troubles on his own turf, the poet contemplates the dark side of human nature and asks: how is it that the most brilliant and compassionate species in Earth’s history is also the most brutal and destructive?