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State of the Prisons

  • ISBN-13: 9781857547757
  • Publisher: CARCANET PRESS
    Imprint: CARCANET PRESS
  • By Sinead Morrissey
  • Price: AUD $24.99
  • Stock: 1 in stock
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  • Local release date: 27/02/2013
  • Format: Paperback (216.00mm X 135.00mm) 80 pages Weight: 100g
  • Categories: Poetry by individual poets [DCF]
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In her third book of poems, Sinead Morrissey builds on the achievement of her award-winning collection, "Between Here and There", by expanding the lyric into new territories and admitting new voices. The theme of imprisonment is variously addressed: in the actual prisons of eighteenth-century Europe; in the prison of our own limited perceptions of experience, particularly of other cultures when abroad; in the prison of the mortal human body itself. Alongside the intimate interiors of human relationships, the poems are also interested in broader discourses, particularly history, and range in scope from the Royalist convictions of a woman wearing a Scold's Bridle during England's interregnum, to the story of the number zero. Form and content, as well as the personal and the political, are blended throughout this collection with imagination and consummate skill. As in her previous two books, travel remains a source of inspiration: one exhilarating poem details, in nine 'chapters', a six-thousand-mile train journey across China in which the conflicting faces of a rapidly changing country jostle for space. The collection ends with a compelling act of ventriloquism, as Morrissey recounts, in the first person, the life and works of the great prison reformer John Howard, and details his vision for the moral regeneration of the corrupted human soul.
Flight; The Second Lesson of the Anatomists; Forty Lengths; Genetics; Lullaby; Contrail; Little House in the Big Woods; Juist; China; The Gobi from Air; Polar; On Omitting the Word 'Just' from my Vocabulary; Advice; Reading the Greats; In Praise of Salt; The Wound Man; Clocks; Aunt Sarah's Cupboards and Drawers; Absences Also; Icarus; Forgiveness; Driving Alone on a Snowy Evening; Migraine; The Yellow Emperor's Classic; Zero; Stepfather; The State of the Prisons; Notes
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