More Sky
, by Carrick-Varty, JoeNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9781800173019 | 1800173016
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 3/30/2023
Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2023. 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.