We Are Always & Forever Ending finds Adrian Earle in expansive mode, dipping into a diverse array of subjects: the trails and tribulations of masculinity, the omnipresence of racism in the world at large and an existential conversation with the universe. Earle’s poems move beyond the present by diving deep into the well of human experience. We Are Always & Forever Ending bears the fruits of a rich soil, as Earle quotes in Judges 14:14: “Out of the eater, something to eat; out of the strong, something sweet.”