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Recently appointed as Belfast's first poet laureate, she creates poems known for their combination of keen intelligence and whispered intimacy.\u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eParallax\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the 2013 T. S. Eliot Prize, Morrissey explores 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.\u003cbr\u003e This edition of \u003ci\u003eParallax\u003c\/i\u003e also includes Morrissey's own selection of her favorite poems from her previous collections, published for the first time in the United States. 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