{"product_id":"9781800173019","title":"More Sky by Joe Carrick-Varty","description":"Longlisted for the Michael Murphy Memorial Poetry Prize 2025Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2023A The Irish Times Book of the YearMore Sky is a remarkable and remarkably various debut collection from Eric Gregory Award winner, Joe Carrick-Varty, tracking the ways in which experience of addiction and domestic violence shape a life.   Carrick-Varty approaches difficult material with great skill and poise: here we find stunning individual lyrics, with an eye for the vivid and surreal; surprising sequences which use Buddhism and Greek myth and the life of coral to refract the poems' interests; and the astonishing sixty-three page long poem `sky doc' which meditates on suicide, and its retrospective haunting of every corner of its speaker's life.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56307246203253,"sku":"9781800173019","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781800173019.jpg?v=1762803259","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781800173019","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}