Some Integrity

Some Integrity
Padraig Regan
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27 Jan 2022 UK
9781800172081
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Winner of the Clarissa Luard Prize 2021. In ' Minty' , one of the typically charged and capacious poems in this eagerly-awaited debut collection, a mojito glass reflects:whatever grid of bricks & wood makes up the room wehappen to be sitting inis dilated & wrapped around a single focal-point; whateverportion of the sky that happensto be visible through the window becomes a convex bowl. Theweather also happens,as it always does, & passes on, & brings those other placeswhere it falls into the orbit of the glass. ' To look up from Padraig Regan' s words is to find oneself gently re-fitted into the world,' writes Vahni Capideo, praising Padraig Regan' s ' awesome originality and honesty' . The poems of Some Integrity bring something new to the Irish lyric tradition. Queerness is a way of looking, a perspective, grounded in an awareness of the porous and provisional nature of our bodies. The book' s social encounters and exchanges, its responses to the work of artists, its figures in a landscape, and its considerations of food and desire, work as capsule narratives and as an exhilarating extension of that lyric tradition.
' To look up from Padraig Regan' s words is to find oneself gently re-fitted into the world' - Vahni Capildeo; ' The thing I admire most in Padraig Regan' s writing is its lightness of touch. The poems may be ambitious, but their beauty comes from the simplicity with which these ingredients come together. I don' t think I' ve ever come across such joyful, vibrant work. ' - Matthew Welton
Padraig Regan is the author of two poetry pamphlets: Delicious (Lifeboat, 2016) and Who Seemed Alive & Altogether Real (Emma Press, 2017). In 2015, they were a recipient of an Eric Gregory Award, and in 2020 they were awarded the Ireland Chair of Poetry Bursary Prize. They hold a PhD on creative-critical and hybridised writing practices in medieval texts and the work of Anne Carson from the Seamus Heaney Centre, Queen' s University Belfast, where they were a Ciaran Carson Writing and the City Fellow in 2021. This collection is the recipient of the 2022 Clarissa Luard Prize, awarded by the David Cohen Foundation.
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ISBN-13: 9781800172081
Published: 27 Jan 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Carcanet Press
Publisher: Carcanet Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 216mm
Width: 135mm
Pages: 88

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