{"product_id":"more-sky-9781800173019","title":"More Sky","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003eMore Sky is a powerful debut collection that explores the impact of addiction and domestic violence on a life, featuring stunning individual lyrics, surprising sequences, and a sixty-three-page-long poem on suicide. \u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat\u003c\/strong\u003e: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLength\u003c\/strong\u003e: 132 pages\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication date\u003c\/strong\u003e: 26 January 2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: Carcanet Press Ltd\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch1\u003eLonglisted for the Michael Murphy Memorial Poetry Prize 2025\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch1\u003eShortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2023\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch1\u003eA \u003cem\u003eThe Irish Times\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eBook of the Year\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch1\u003eMore Sky\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMore 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight\u003c\/strong\u003e: 176g\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimension\u003c\/strong\u003e: 135 x 215 x 15 (mm)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9781800173019\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Joe Carrick-Varty","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":44095158485242,"sku":"9781800173019","price":8.77,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0522\/4297\/2845\/products\/noImage_1_e41ec3c2-f241-469b-8c33-64e6ac8afa12.jpg?v=1675620880","url":"https:\/\/shulphink.com\/products\/more-sky-9781800173019","provider":"Shulph Ink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}