BOOKS - Some Integrity
Some Integrity - Padraig Regan January 27, 2022 PDF  BOOKS
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Some Integrity
Author: Padraig Regan
Year: January 27, 2022
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 916 KB
Language: English

Winner of the Clarissa Luard Prize 2021In 'Minty', one of the typically charged and capacious poems in this eagerly-awaited debut collection, a mojito glass reflects:whatever grid of bricks and u0026 wood makes up the room wehappen to be sitting inis dilated and u0026 wrapped around a single focal-point; whateverportion of the sky that happensto be visible through the window becomes a convex bowl. Theweather also happens,as it always does, and u0026 passes on, and u0026 brings those other placeswhere 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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