{"product_id":"more-sky-9781800173019","title":"More Sky","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the Michael Murphy Memorial Poetry Prize 2025 \u003cbr\u003e Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2023 \u003cbr\u003e A \u003ci\u003eThe Irish Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMore Sky\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Carcanet Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/30\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781800173019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 132","brand":"Joe Carrick-Varty","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52774155976885,"sku":"9781800173019","price":16.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/more-sky-9781800173019","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}