On Balance [electronic resource]
Morrissey, Sinead2017
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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, Sinéad 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 world. A poem on Lilian Bland - the first woman to design, build and fly her own aeroplane - celebrates the audacity and ingenuity of a great Irish heroine. Elsewhere, explorers in Greenland set foot on a fjord system accessible to Europeans for the first time in millennia as a result of global warming. But if life is fragile then its traces are persistent, insistent, and in 'Articulation' we are invited to stop and wonder at the reconstructed skeleton of Napoleon s horse, Marengo, 'whose very hooves trod mud at Austerlitz', suspended in time 'for however long he lasts before he crumbles'.
Main title:
On Balance [electronic resource] / Sinead Morrissey
Author:
Morrissey, Sinead, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Carcanet, 2017
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
Biography/History:
Sinéad Morrissey was born in 1972 and grew up in Belfast. Her awards include the Patrick Kavanagh Award, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, first prize in the uk National Poetry Competition, the Irish Times Poetry Prize (2009, 2013), and the T. S. Eliot Prize (2013). Parallax and Selected Poems (Farrar Straus & Giroux) was shortlisted for the National Book Critics' Circle Award for Poetry in 2015 and in 2016 she received the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Morrissey has served as Belfast's inaugural Poet Laureate and is currently Professor of Creative Writing at Newcastle University.
ISBN:
9781784103613
Language:
English
BRN:
2307049