Found Architecture
Selected Poems
Published on 30. April 2020
256 pages
978-1-78410-932-5 (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
'Stunning, accessible poems'Damian Smyth, Belfast Telegraph 'Morrissey's telling of ... life is beautifully done, with no sentimentality or mawkishness [...] A brilliant book.'
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English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
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Carcanet Press Ltd
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0,77 MB
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978-1-78410-932-5 (9781784109325)
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Sinead Morrissey was born in Northern Ireland in 1972 and educated at Trinity College, Dublin. She has published six collections with Carcanet as well as a selected poems, Found Architecture (2020). Her awards include a Lannan Literary Fellowship (2007), First Prize in the UK National Poetry Competition (2007), the Irish Times Award (2009, 2013) and the T S Eliot Prize for her fifth collection, Parallax, in 2013. In 2016 she received the E M Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her latest collection, On Balance (2017) was awarded the Forward Prize and was a Poetry Book Society Choice. In 2020 Sinead Morrissey was named the European Poet of Freedom by the City of Gdansk, Poland and in 2024 she was the recipient of the Seamus Heaney Award (Japan). She has served as Belfast Poet Laureate and in 2019 was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She is currently Professor of Creative Writing at Newcastle University. Sinead Morrissey is a frequent contributor to PN Review.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- from There Was Fire in Vancouver (1996)
- Among Communists
- Cnd
- Europa Hotel
- Awaiting Burial
- Leaving Flensburg
- Losing a Diary
- There Was Fire in Vancouver
- from Between Here and There (2002)
- In Belfast
- Tourism
- & Forgive Us Our Trespasses
- In Need of a Funeral
- Rock Pool
- Stitches
- Post Mortem
- Jo Gravis in His Metal Garden
- This Century, the Next, the Last
- An Anatomy of Smell
- Lucidity
- On Waitakere Dam
- Goldfish
- Spring Festival
- Summer Festival
- Autumn Festival
- Winter Festival
- To Imagine an Alphabet
- Between Here and There
- from The State of the Prisons (2005)
- Flight
- Genetics
- Pilots
- Contrail
- China
- On Omitting the Word 'Just' from My Vocabulary
- Clocks
- Absences Also
- The Yellow Emperor's Classic
- Zero
- Stepfather
- from Through the Square Window (2009)
- Storm
- Saint-Exupéry
- A Device for Monitoring Brain Activity by Shining Light into the Pupil
- Matter
- Found Architecture
- Vanity Fair
- Ice
- 'Love, the nightwatch.'
- Augustine Sleeping Before He Can Talk
- Through the Square Window
- The Clangers
- York
- History
- Flu
- Fairground Music
- Cathedral
- Telegraph
- The Hanging Hare
- Dash
- Electric Edwardians
- Shadows in Siberia According to Kapuscinski
- from Parallax (2013)
- 1801
- Baltimore
- Shostakovich
- Photographs of Belfast by Alexander Robert Hogg
- Display
- Fur
- A Day's Blindness
- Jigsaw
- Puzzle
- Photographing Lowry's House
- Daughter
- A Matter of Life and Death
- The Doctors
- Lighthouse
- The Mutoscope
- The Party Bazaar
- A Lie
- Blog
- Don Juan, 2012
- from On Balance (2017)
- The Millihelen
- On Balance
- Receiving the Dead
- Platinum Anniversary
- Nativity
- Perfume
- Collier
- The Mayfly
- My Life According to You
- Articulation
- Das Ding an Sich
- Colour Photographs of Tsarist Russia
- The Singing Gates
- Whitelessness
- Very Dyspraxic Child
- The Rope
- from The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices
- Notes
- Acknowledgements
- Index of Poem Titles
- About the Author
- Also by Sinéad Morrissey
- Copyright
