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Some integrity / Padraig Regan.

by Regan, Padraig.

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Carcanet Press Ltd, 2022.

Lambda Literary Award.

English poetry -- Irish authors.

9781800172081 (lib. bdg.)

83 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

"In 'Minty', one of the typically charged and capacious poems in this eagerly-awaited debut collection, a mojito glass reflects: whatever grid of bricks & wood makes up the room we happen to be sitting in is dilated & 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, & passes on, & 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 '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."--From publisher.

Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry, 2023.

English poetry.

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