Found Architecture
Selected Poems
Carcanet Press Ltd
Published on 30. April 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-1-78410-931-8 (ISBN)
Description
Winner of the Seamus Heaney Award, Japan 2024
Shortlisted for the Pigott Poetry Prize 2021
A Sunday Independent Book of the Year 2020
An Irish Times Best Poetry Book of the Year 2020
Sinead Morrissey has published six celebrated collections of poetry. This Selected Poems reveals how she has developed formally and thematically from the precocious and carefully considered first book, There Was Fire in Vancouver (1996), to the most recent and highly praised, On Balance (2017).
There
is throughout Morrissey's work a civic dimension: her imagination is
dynamically peopled, as are her various landscapes and sense of history,
and she is drawn to the conflicts and contradictions at the heart of
all human intention and inquiry, as well as to celebrating individual
women and men and the things they create or unleash. There is always a
paradox which she enters and explores, making it luminous but never
resolving it. For Morrissey, each poem becomes a word-space in which
readers are set free on their own journey of discovery.
Shortlisted for the Pigott Poetry Prize 2021
A Sunday Independent Book of the Year 2020
An Irish Times Best Poetry Book of the Year 2020
Sinead Morrissey has published six celebrated collections of poetry. This Selected Poems reveals how she has developed formally and thematically from the precocious and carefully considered first book, There Was Fire in Vancouver (1996), to the most recent and highly praised, On Balance (2017).
There
is throughout Morrissey's work a civic dimension: her imagination is
dynamically peopled, as are her various landscapes and sense of history,
and she is drawn to the conflicts and contradictions at the heart of
all human intention and inquiry, as well as to celebrating individual
women and men and the things they create or unleash. There is always a
paradox which she enters and explores, making it luminous but never
resolving it. For Morrissey, each poem becomes a word-space in which
readers are set free on their own journey of discovery.
Reviews / Votes
'Sinead Morrissey gains power with each collection. She's one of those generous writers whose images and structures open so invitingly that your response is to grab a pen and write back to her: in other words, an inspiration.' - Hilary Mantel; 'Morrissey's poetry combines deep feeling with a probing, philosophical intelligence.' - The Poetry ReviewMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 214 mm
Width: 134 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
322 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78410-931-8 (9781784109318)
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Sinead Morrissey has published six celebrated collections of poetry. This Selected Poems reveals how she has developed formally and thematically from the precocious and carefully considered first book, There Was Fire in Vancouver (1996), to the most recent and highly praised, On Balance (2017).
There is throughout Morrissey's work a civic dimension: her imagination is dynamically peopled, as are her various landscapes and sense of history, and she is drawn to the conflicts and contradictions at the heart of all human intention and inquiry, as well as to celebrating individual women and men and the things they create or unleash. There is always a paradox which she enters and explores, making it luminous but never resolving it. For Morrissey, each poem becomes a word-space in which readers are set free on their own journey of discovery.
There is throughout Morrissey's work a civic dimension: her imagination is dynamically peopled, as are her various landscapes and sense of history, and she is drawn to the conflicts and contradictions at the heart of all human intention and inquiry, as well as to celebrating individual women and men and the things they create or unleash. There is always a paradox which she enters and explores, making it luminous but never resolving it. For Morrissey, each poem becomes a word-space in which readers are set free on their own journey of discovery.