Through the Square Window - Couverture souple

Morrissey, Sinéad

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1847770576 ISBN 13 : 9781847770578

Editeur : Carcanet Poetry, 2009

Synopsis

Sinead Morrissey's fourth collection explores fertility, pregnancy, and the landscape of early childhood in poems that are by turns tender, exuberant and unsettling. Pitched against the 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 her theme. Infancy is for Morrissey the rich and contested territory in which what it means to be human in a precarious world is disclosed.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Sinead Morrissey was born in Portadown, Co Armagh, in 1972 and grew up in Belfast. She is the author of three previous collections: There Was Fire in Vancouver (1996), Between Here and There (2002) and The State of the Prisons (2005). Her awards include the Patrick Kavanagh Award, the Rupert and Eithne Strong Award and the Michael Hartnett Poetry Prize. Both Between Here and There and The State of the Prisons were shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. The State of the Prisons was also shortlisted for the Irish Times Poetry Prize and the John Llewellyn Rhys Commonwealth Literature Prize. In 2007 she received a Lannan Literary Fellowship. She is lecturer in creative writing at the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry, Queen's University, Belfast.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Carcanet Poetry
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1847770576
• ISBN 13: 9781847770578
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 80
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