On balance / Sinéad Morrissey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morrissey, Sinéad, 1972- author.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry, Modern.

English poetry--21st century--Irish authors.

English poetry.

English poetry--Irish authors.

Authors, Irish.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

71 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Carcanet Press, 2017.

Summary:

Set against a backdrop of ecological and economic instability, Sinéad Morrissey's sixth collection, On Balance, revisits some of the great feats of human engineering to reveal the states of balance and imbalance that have shaped our history. The poems also address gender inequality and our inharmonious relationship with the natural world. A poem on Lilian Bland - the first woman to design, build and fly her own aeroplane - celebrates the audacity and ingenuity of a great Irish heroine. Elsewhere, explorers in Greenland set foot on a fjord system accessible to Europeans for the first tune in millennia as a result of global warming. But if life is fragile then its traces are persistent, insistent, and in 'Articulation' we are invited to stop and wonder at the reconstructed skeleton of Napoleon's horse, Marengo, 'whose very hooves trod mud at Austerlitz, suspended in time 'for however long he lasts before he crumbles'. Book jacket.

Contents:

The Millihelen 9

At the Moscow State Circus 10

On Balance 11

Receiving the Dead 12

Platinum Anniversary 15

Nativity 16

At the Balancing Lakes 18

Perfume 20

Tribute 23

Collier 24

My Seventeenth-Century Girlhood 30

The Mayfly 32

My Life According to You 36

Articulation 39

Das Ding an Sich 41

The Singing Gates 42

Meteor Shower 48

Colour Photographs of Tsarist Russia 46

Whitelessness 51

The Wheel of Death 57

Very Dyspraxic Child 61

The Rope 63

From The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices 65.

ISBN:

9781784103606

1784103608

OCLC:

962016326