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On Balance (Paperback)
Sinead Morrissey
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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'.
In her third book of poems, Sinead Morrissey builds on the
achievement of her award-winning collection, "Between Here and
There", by expanding the lyric into new territories and admitting
new voices. The theme of imprisonment is variously addressed: in
the actual prisons of eighteenth-century Europe; in the prison of
our own limited perceptions of experience, particularly of other
cultures when abroad; in the prison of the mortal human body
itself. Alongside the intimate interiors of human relationships,
the poems are also interested in broader discourses, particularly
history, and range in scope from the Royalist convictions of a
woman wearing a Scold's Bridle during England's interregnum, to the
story of the number zero. Form and content, as well as the personal
and the political, are blended throughout this collection with
imagination and consummate skill. As in her previous two books,
travel remains a source of inspiration: one exhilarating poem
details, in nine 'chapters', a six-thousand-mile train journey
across China in which the conflicting faces of a rapidly changing
country jostle for space.The collection ends with a compelling act
of ventriloquism, as Morrissey recounts, in the first person, the
life and works of the great prison reformer John Howard, and
details his vision for the moral regeneration of the corrupted
human soul.
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Parallax (Paperback)
Sinead Morrissey
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Winner of the 2013 T S Eliot Prize for Poetry Shortlisted for the
2013 Forward Prize for Best Collection In Parallax Sinead Morrissey
documents what is caught, and what is lost, when houses and
cityscapes, servants and saboteurs ('the different people who lived
in sepia') are arrested in time by photography (or poetry),
subjected to the authority of a particular perspective. Assured and
disquieting, Morrissey's poems explore the paradoxes in what is
seen, read and misread in the surfaces of the presented world.
Morrissey is the winner of the 2013 T S Eliot Prize for Poetry and
the 1990 Patrick Kavanagh Award for Poetry. This book of poems is
organized around the theme of the journey: from communism to
spiritual affirmation; from life in Ireland to life abroad, and
return; and from the security of given structures - the family in
particular - to independence and security in the self. Poems of
childhood and communist upbringing open the collection. There are
poems about death; about love, its loss and the disorienatation
that ensues; and a number which deal with angels and the
implications of religious faith.
Fertility, pregnancy, and the landscape of early childhood are
themes explored in this collection of poems, which are by turns
tender, exuberant, and unsettling. Pitched against envious dead,
these diverse narratives of birth and its consequences are rooted
in literary and historical contexts--from Aristotle's theory of
spontaneous generation to Lewis Carroll's Alice--that amplify the
depth of the collection. These selections are an examination of
motherhood and infancy, which is the rich and contested territory
in which what it means to be human in a precarious world is
disclosed.
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Selected Poems (Paperback)
Donald Davie; Edited by Sinead Morrissey; Introduction by Sinead Morrissey
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This new selection of Donald Davie's poems spans six decades. It
traces his protean trajectory from austere beginnings to riskier
dislocations of shape and syntax, through to his extended
late-meditations on form, content, and spirit. To apply his own
critical definition of syntax, his is a poetic of articulate
energy, the restless redistribution of force – an abiding
resource and inspiration.
In her second book of poems Sinead Morrissey's worlds grow more
diverse, encompassing the Orient, the Antipodes, America and an
Ireland which recent history has changed: a country observed
through eyes that travel and time have made clear, dispassionate
and disabused. The poems are still hungry for grace, but in each
new geographical and spiritual territory what seems promise is
undermined by material and cultural reality; the ceremonies and
beliefs of Japan, for example, yield the most colourful spiritual
barrenness; and when the poet returns to Ireland it is with a
political anger sharpened by the very directness of her vision. Her
use of traditional forms is freer and more assured than ever: her
wit is visual and semantic, and wonderfully nuanced in her unusual
rhythms of speech.
The Forward Book of Poetry 2018 showcases a selection of the best
contemporary poetry published in the British Isles over the last
year, including the winners of 2017's prestigious Forward Prizes
for Poetry. It is introduced by Andrew Marr, chairman of the
Forward Prizes judges. Their final recommendations give a strong
sense of the variety, vitality and wit of poetry today, making this
anthology - the 26th in an annual series - valuable to both
first-time poetry readers and those keen to find more new poetry to
enjoy.
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