Parallax
A multi-angled collection that layers politics, history, and private memory, turning perspective and displacement into the subject of the poems.
Work Information
Each shift in perspective gives history and memory a new outline.
Parallax crosses political and historical material with private memory and turns differences in seeing into the poems themselves. Its multi-voiced structure is central to the work.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Carcanet Pr
- Published
- 2013-10-01
- Pages
- 69 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 13.97 x 1.27 x 21.59 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781847772046
- ISBN-10
- 1847772048
- Price
- 2514 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Poetry/British
Capturing David Niven on a magical marble escalator to heaven in 1946, recording L. S. Lowry’s studio after his death, and peering into the illicit worlds of the Victorian Mutoscope, these poems document what is caught, and what is lost, when houses and cityscapes, servants and saboteurs are arrested in time by photography. Assured and unsettling, Sinéad Morrissey’s poems explore the paradoxes in what is seen, read, and misread in the surfaces of the presented world.
Sinéad Morrissey is the author of Between Here and There , The State of the Prisons , and There Was Fire in Vancouver . She was the youngest poet to receive the Patrick Kavanagh Award for Poetry and teaches poetry at the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry at Queen’s University–Belfast.
Reviews
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Breathtaking
This is a terrific poetry collection and I hope she wins the Forward Prize for it. She just gets better and better. The poems are fresh, bright, technically agile and clever, but carry their structure gracefully and are deeply enjoyable. She writes about her children beautifully as if they are fascinating animals, which may not sound too maternal, but have you seen David Attenborough meeting that young rhino? Well, like that! Poetry lovers will already know about Morrissey, but the general reader should also rush out and buy this book immediately.
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Her verse is not overly poetic or romantic, but ...
Her verse is not overly poetic or romantic, but conveys a powerful sense of seeing through someone else's eyes, a sense of place, a sense of a particular time or moment. Morrissey is part of the modern world, where information is constantly bombarding us, through all kinds of media -- we learn about her own domestic life, family and politics through the lens of some of these external events, past and present. She refers at the back to her sources of inspiration for 6 of the poems: each source is fascinating and the poems made me want to research them further.
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Exquisite
These are wonderful, accessible poems, bursting with life, both of the common and garden and the imagination, with not a little erudition thrown in. I haven't read a collection of poems for a long time that has I impressed me, inspired me and cheered me more for a long time. Buy!
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Quirky and memorable
Heaps of awards for Morrissey, including the TS Eliot Prize for Parallax, might be a hype too far for most of these poems.
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Five Stars
Beautiful words .....
Related Literary Awards
- T. S. Eliot Prize Edition 21 (2013) ・Winner