Parallax by Sinead Morrissey
The T S Eliot Prize-winning fifth collection of poems by the inaugural Belfast laureate, and one of Northern Ireland's greatest female poets.
'In a year of brilliantly themed collections, the judges were unanimous in choosing Sinead Morrissey's Parallax as the winnerPolitically, historically and personally ambitious, expressed in beautifully turned language, her book is as many-angled and any-angled as its title suggests.' --Ian Duhig, Chair of the 2013 T S Eliot Prize Judges 'The outstanding poet of her generation.' --Stephen Knight, Independent
Sinéad 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 Sinéad Morrissey was named the European Poet of Freedom by the City of Gdańsk, 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. Sinéad Morrissey is a frequent contributor to PN Review. Author photo credit: Clare Bowles
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| ISBN 13 | 9781847772046 |
| ISBN 10 | 1847772048 |
| Title | Parallax |
| Author | Sinead Morrissey |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Carcanet Press Ltd |
| Year published | 2013-07-01 |
| Number of pages | 80 |
| Prizes | Winner of T S Eliot Prize 2013, Short-listed for Forward Poetry Prize for Best Collection 2013 |
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