{"product_id":"some-integrity-9781800172081","title":"Some Integrity","description":"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 \u0026amp; wood makes up the room we happen to be sitting in is dilated \u0026amp; 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, \u0026amp; passes on, \u0026amp; 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 \u003ci\u003eSome Integrity \u003c\/i\u003ebring 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePadraig Regan\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of two poetry pamphlets: \u003ci\u003eDelicious\u003c\/i\u003e (Lifeboat, 2016) and \u003ci\u003eWho Seemed Alive \u0026amp; Altogether Real \u003c\/i\u003e(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 2021 Clarissa Luard Prize.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Carcanet Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50554389430546,"sku":"9781800172081","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6720cf04-79f8-4a5e-bb5c-aea63c668f5e.jpg?v=1731714633","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/some-integrity-9781800172081","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}