More Sky

This is a new book. Condition: Brand New.

Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2023.
A The Irish Times Book of the Year.

More Sky is a remarkable and remarkably various debut collection from Eric Gregory Award winner, Joe Carrick-Varty, tracking the ways in which experience of addiction and domestic violence shape a life.

Carrick-Varty approaches difficult material with great skill and poise: here we find stunning individual lyrics, with an eye for the vivid and surreal; surprising sequences which use Buddhism and Greek myth and the life of coral to refract the poems' interests; and the astonishing sixty-three page long poem 'sky doc' which meditates on suicide, and its retrospective haunting of every corner of its speaker's life.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9781800173019
Published: January 2023

Number of pages: 132
Width: 135 mm
Height: 216 mm
Depth: not specified

Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd