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Some Integrity

Some Integrity

Regan, Padraig

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ISBN10: 1800172087
ISBN13: 9781800172081
Publisher: Carcanet Press
Published: Mar 31 2022
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.27
Height: 0.28 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
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 we happen to be sitting in is dilated & wrapped around a single focal-point; whatever portion of the sky that happens to be visible through the window becomes a convex bowl. The weather also happens, as it always does, & passes on, & brings those other places where 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.

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