On Balance (Shortlisted, 2017 Forward Poetry Prize for Best Collection)

     Time, which is itself encased     in stunning script: Baikal     poured into a single     shell or glass receptacle. Belfast folk aver there was nothing wrong with the Titanic when she left their slipway. As that city’s inaugural laureate Sinéad Morrissey arrives in Newcastle, her most recent collection On Balance opens by contemplating the fated liner’s Read More

Parallax (Winner of the 2014 TS Eliot Poetry Prize)

Parallax is an astronomical term for the apparent displacement of an object caused by a change in the point of observation. In this wide-ranging collection of the same name, short-listed for the 2013 Forward Prize, Morrissey considers from different angles how our position affects what and how we see. In several poems, Morrissey’s lens is Read More