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Addressing the theme of imprisonment in various states-from actual prisons in 18th century Europe to the limits perceptions place on individual experiences-this collection of poems fully explores the intimate interiors of human relationships. Form and content, as well as the personal and the political, are blended throughout this collection with imagination and consummate skill. This collection concludes with a first person recounting of the l...

With the publication of her second book of poems, Morrissey's poetic landscape grows more diverse, encompassing the Orient, the Antipodes, America, and Ireland. Searching for tranquility and grace, the poet finds only colorful spiritual barrenness and cultural reality at her destinations. These poems also reflect the poet's political anger upon returning to her native Northern Ireland. Fitted with visually sharp wit and unusual rhythms of spee...

The 4th collection from the Northern Irish poet, which explores ways of seeing, and what is read and misread in the surfaces of the presented world. 'The outstanding poet of her generation.' Stephen King, "Independent

By the winner of the 2013 T S Eliot Prize 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 to independence and security in the self.

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Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in PoetryOnly for you do the two mute girls on stagewho falter at first, erratic as staticin the synaptic gap between each image, imperceptibly jolt to life-grinning, tap-dancing, morphing into footage, their arms like immaculate pistons, their legs like knives . . .It lasts a minute, their having-been-written onto light.-from "The Mutoscope"Sinéad Morrissey is one of the most fascinating tal...

Sinéad Morrissey is one of the most fascinating talents in international poetry. Recently appointed Belfast's first poet laureate, she creates poems known for their combination of keen intelligence and whispered intimacy.In Parallax, which won the 2013 T. S. Eliot Prize, Morrissey writes of what is captured, and what is lost, when houses and cityscapes, servants and saboteurs ("the different people who lived in sepia"), are arrested in time by...

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 examinatio...