Description
About the Author
Padraig Regan is the author of two poetry pamphlets: Delicious (Lifeboat, 2016) and Who Seemed Alive & Altogether Real (Emma Press, 2017). In 2015, they were a recipient of an Eric Gregory Award, and in 2020 they were awarded the Ireland Chair of Poetry Bursary Prize. They hold a PhD on creative-critical and hybridised writing practices in medieval texts and the work of Anne Carson from the Seamus Heaney Centre, Queen's University Belfast, where they were a Ciaran Carson Writing and the City Fellow in 2021. This collection is the recipient of the 2022 Clarissa Luard Prize, awarded by the David Cohen Foundation.
Reviews
'To look up from Padraig Regan's words is to find oneself gently re-fitted into the world' - Vahni Capildeo; 'The thing I admire most in Padraig Regan's writing is its lightness of touch. The poems may be ambitious, but their beauty comes from the simplicity with which these ingredients come together. I don't think I've ever come across such joyful, vibrant work.' - Matthew Welton
Awards
Winner of The Clarissa Luard Prize 2021 and The Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry 2023. Short-listed for The Forward Prize for Best First Collection 2022 and The John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize 2023.
Book Information
ISBN 9781800172081
Author Padraig Regan
Format Paperback
Page Count 88
Imprint Carcanet Press Ltd
Publisher Carcanet Press Ltd