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Conor O’Callaghan is an Irish poet based in the UK. To date, he has published three collections of poems with Gallery Press and one book of prose non-fiction with Bloomsbury. This extraordinary new poem, re-imagining the server room of an office building as a remote site of pilgrimage, incorporates several external texts: the ‘Refreshed Corporate Plan’ of Sheffield Hallam University, ‘Directive’ by Robert Frost and the minor or lesser doxology of the Latin mass. ‘The Server Room’ first appeared in The Edinburgh Review (136, Winter 2012) and will be collected in The Sun King (Gallery Press, 2013). http://smithereenspress.blog.com [email protected]