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Trinity College.
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State of the Prisons
( Addressing the theme of imprisonment in various states-...)
Addressing the theme of imprisonment in various states-from actual prisons in 18th century Europe to the limits perceptions place on individual experiences-this collection of poems fully explores the intimate interiors of human relationships. Form and content, as well as the personal and the political, are blended throughout this collection with imagination and consummate skill. This collection concludes with a first person recounting of the life and works of the great prison reformer John Howard while detailing his vision for the moral regeneration of the corrupted human soul.
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Between Here and There: New Poems
(In her second book of poems Sinead Morrissey's worlds gro...)
In her second book of poems Sinead Morrissey's worlds grow more diverse, encompassing the Orient, the Antipodes, America and an Ireland which recent history has changed and yet not deeply, a country observed through eyes that travel and time have made dispassionate and disabused.
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Through the Square Window (Poetry Book Society Recommendation)
( Fertility, pregnancy, and the landscape of early childh...)
Fertility, pregnancy, and the landscape of early childhood are themes explored in this collection of poems, which are by turns tender, exuberant, and unsettling. Pitched against 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 the depth of the collection. These selections are an examination of motherhood and infancy, which is the rich and contested territory in which what it means to be human in a precarious world is disclosed.
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Parallax: And Selected Poems
( Sinéad Morrissey is one of the most fascinating talents...)
Sinéad Morrissey is one of the most fascinating talents in international poetry. Recently appointed Belfast's first poet laureate, she creates poems known for their combination of keen intelligence and whispered intimacy. In Parallax, which won the 2013 T. S. Eliot Prize, Morrissey writes of what is captured, and what is lost, when houses and cityscapes, servants and saboteurs ("the different people who lived in sepia"), are arrested in time by photography (or poetry), subjected to the authority of a particular perspective. Assured and disquieting, Morrisey's poems explore the paradoxes that result when we attempt to freeze our passing experience through art. This edition of Parallax also includes a selection of poems from Morrisey's previous collections, published for the first time in the United States. In their variety of subjects and styles they trace the evolution of a poet, showcasing the formal mastery and tenderness that define her work.
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Sinead Morrissey
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After periods living in Japan and New Zealand she now lives in Belfast, where she has been writer-in-residence at Queen"s University, Belfast and currently lectures. In November 2007, she received a Lannan Foundation Fellowship for "distinctive literary merit and for demonstrating potential for continued outstanding work". The chair of the judging panel, Ian Duhig, remarked that the collection was "politically, historically and personally ambitious, expressed in beautifully turned language, her book is as many-angled and any-angled as its title suggests.".
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In January 2014 she won the T. S. Eliot Prize for her fifth collection Parallax. Raised in Belfast, she was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where she took Bachelor and Doctor of Philosophy degrees, and won the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award in 1990. She has published four collections of poetry: There Was Fire in Vancouver (1996), Between Here and There (2001), The State of the Prisons (2005), and Through the Square Window (2009), the second, third and fourth of which were shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. Her collection, The State of the Prisons, was shortlisted for the Poetry Now Award in 2006. The same collection won the Michael Hartnett Poetry Prize in 2005. Her poem "Through the Square Window" won first prize in the 2007 British National Poetry Competition. Her collection, Through the Square Window, won the Poetry Now Award for 2010. In January 2014 Morrissey won the Thomas Stearns Eliot Prize for her fifth collection Parallax.
Works
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Between Here and There: New Poems
(In her second book of poems Sinead Morrissey's worlds gro...)
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State of the Prisons
( Addressing the theme of imprisonment in various states-...)
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Through the Square Window (Poetry Book Society Recommendation)
( Fertility, pregnancy, and the landscape of early childh...)
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Parallax: And Selected Poems
( Sinéad Morrissey is one of the most fascinating talents...)
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Between Here and There: New Poems
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United Kingdom
Education
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T. S. Eliot Prize; Eric Gregory Award Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award; Poetry Now Award; T. S. Eliot Prize; Poetry Prize; National Poetry Competition
The T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry is awarded by the Poetry Book Society (UK) to 'the best collection of new verse in English first published in the UK or the Republic of Ireland' in any particular year.The T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry is awarded by the Poetry Book Society (UK) to 'the best collection of new verse in English first published in the UK or the Republic of Ireland' in any particular year.