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On Balance
Sinead Morrissey
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Description for On Balance
Paperback. Sinead Morrissey's poems consider spectacular feats of human engineering from our radically unstable perspective. BIC Classification: 1DBR; DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135. .
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
72
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784103606
SKU
V9781784103606
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About Sinead Morrissey
Sinead Morrissey was born in 1972 and grew up in Belfast. She read English and German at Trinity College, Dublin, from which she took her PhD in 2003. Her five collections are There Was Fire in Vancouver (1996), Between Here and There (2002), The State of the Prisons (2005), Through the Square Window (2009) and the T S Eliot Prize-winning ... Read more
Reviews for On Balance
'The outstanding poet of her generation.' - Stephen Knight, Independent