ISBN: PB: 9781800173019

Carcanet

January 2023

96 pp.

21,6x13,5 cm

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This debut collection is an exploration of grief, addiction, violence, mental illness and working-class masculinity framed within the dynamic of a father / son relationship.

About the author

Joe Carrick-Varty is a writer who lives in London. He is the author of two pamphlets, "Somewhere Far" (The Poetry Business, 2019) which won the 2018 New Poets Prize, and "54 Questions for the Man Who Sold a Shotgun to My Father" (Out-Spoken Press, 2020). His poems have appeared in the New Statesman, The Poetry Review, Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry London, and elsewhere. He is co-founder of bath magg, and a book reviewer for PN Review. In 2019 he was selected by Poetry Ireland as one of Ireland's emerging poets – for the Introductions Series.