Through the Square Window

Sinead Morrissey

ISBN 10: 1847770576 / ISBN 13: 9781847770578

Published by Carcanet, Manchester UK, 2009

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A fine unread 1st impression bound in illustrated card covers. Signed by the Author on the title page. P&P will be reduced to cost.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Through the Square Window
• Publisher: Carcanet, Manchester UK
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1847770576
• ISBN 13: 9781847770578
• Binding: Paperback Original
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: As New
• Weight: 93 grams
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry

About this title

Synopsis

Sinead Morrissey's fourth collection explores fertility, pregnancy, and the landscape of early childhood in poems that are by turns tender, exuberant and unsettling. Pitched against the 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 her theme. Infancy is for Morrissey the rich and contested territory in which what it means to be human in a precarious world is disclosed.

About the Author

Sinead Morrissey was born in Portadown, Co Armagh, in 1972 and grew up in Belfast. She is the author of three previous collections: There Was Fire in Vancouver (1996), Between Here and There (2002) and The State of the Prisons (2005). Her awards include the Patrick Kavanagh Award, the Rupert and Eithne Strong Award and the Michael Hartnett Poetry Prize. Both Between Here and There and The State of the Prisons were shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. The State of the Prisons was also shortlisted for the Irish Times Poetry Prize and the John Llewellyn Rhys Commonwealth Literature Prize. In 2007 she received a Lannan Literary Fellowship. She is lecturer in creative writing at the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry, Queen's University, Belfast.