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Parallax

A T. S. Eliot Prize–winning collection from one of Ireland's major contemporary poets
PARALLAX: (Astron.) Apparent displacement, or difference in the apparent position, of an object, caused by actual change (or difference) of position of the point of observation. (OED)

In Parallax Sinéad Morrissey documents what is caught, and what is lost, when houses and cityscapes, servants and saboteurs ("the different people who lived in sepia"), are arrested in time by photography (or poetry), subjected to the authority of a particular perspective. Assured and disquieting, Morrissey's poems explore the paradoxes in what is seen, read, and misread in the surfaces of the presented world.

Sinéad Morrissey

Sinéad Morrissey was born in 1972 and grew up in Belfast. She is the author of five poetry collections: There Was Fire in Vancouver, Between Here and There, The State of the Prisons, Through the Square Window, and Parallax. She has been the recipient of the 2013 T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry, the Patrick Kavanagh Award, the Irish Times/Poetry Now Award, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, and first prize in the 2007 U.K. National Poetry Competition. She lectures in creative writing at the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry at Queen's University in Belfast, and is Belfast's first poet laureate.

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