Some Integrity

In Minty, a poem by Padraig Regan, a mojito glass reflects the room, the sky, and the weather, bringing us back into the world. His debut collection, Some Integrity, brings something new to the Irish lyric tradition, focusing on queerness, social encounters, and the porous and provisional nature of our bodies.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 88 pages
Publication date: 27 January 2022
Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd

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.

Weight: 124g
Dimension: 135 x 214 x 16 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781800172081