Some Integrity Regan Padraig
Some Integrity Regan Padraig Winner of the Clarissa Luard Prize 2021 In 'Minty, ' one of the typically charged and capacious poems in this eagerly-awaited debut collection, a mojito glass reflects:…
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Some Integrity Regan Padraig
Winner of the Clarissa Luard Prize 2021 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. '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. The weather also happens, as it always does, & passes on, & brings those other places where it falls into the orbit of the glass.
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