Winner of the 2020 Gdansk European Poet of Freedom Literary Award.
Winner of the 2017 Forward Prize for Best Collection. Winner of the
2017 Poetry Book Society Choice Award. Shortlisted for the 2017
Costa Poetry Award. Shortlisted for the 2018 Pigott Poetry Prize.
Shortlisted for the 2018 Roehampton Poetry Prize. Set against a
backdrop of ecological and economic instability, Sinead Morrissey's
sixth collection, On Balance, revisits some of the great feats of
human engineering to reveal the states of balance and inbalance
that have shaped our history. The poems also address gender
inequality and our inharmonious relationship with the natural
world. A poem on Lilian Bland - the first woman to design, build
and fly her own aeroplane - celebrates the audacity and ingenuity
of a great Irish heroine. Elsewhere, explorers in Greenland set
foot on a fjord system accessible to Europeans for the first time
in millennia as a result of global warming. But if life is fragile
then its traces are persistent, insistent, and in 'Articulation' we
are invited to stop and wonder at the reconstructed skeleton of
Napoleon's horse, Marengo, 'whose very hooves trod mud at
Austerlitz', suspended in time 'for however long he lasts before he
crumbles'.
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