Some Integrity

by Padraig Regan

Overview

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. 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781800172081
Publisher:	Carcanet Press, Limited
Publication date:	03/31/2022
Pages:	88
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.30(d)

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 2021 Clarissa Luard Prize.

Table of Contents

50ml of India Ink 13

I (Studies)

The Understudies 17

Pitcher Plants 18

A Machine for Harvesting Olives 19

Rehydrating Mushrooms 20

A Roast 21

Risotto 22

Minty 24

A Snail 25

Katsu Ika Odori-don 26

II (Reproductions)

Life Drawing: Jacob 31

Poem for Bobby Kendall 32

Rembrandt's Slaughtered Ox 33

Vermeer's Supper at Emmaus 34

Two Cabinets 35

On the Principles of Alchemy 37

Our Personal Papers 38

The Barberini Faun: A Partial Reconstruction 41

III (Capriccio)

Glitch City 47

IV (Still Lifes)

A Grapefruit 59

Pavlova 60

The Meat-Shaped Stone 61

Study of a Tomato 62

Three Poems after Ori Gersht

Pomegranate 64

On Reflection 65

Falling Bird 66

Fidelity 67

A Pumpkin 68

V (Landscapes)

Salt Island 71

A Terrible June 72

A Small & Important Thing 73

Ireland 74

A Forest in the Czech Republic 76

History 77

It Only Remains 80

Acknowledgements 83

Editorial Reviews

Longlisted for the Polari Book Prize 2023

Longlisted for the Michael Murphy Memorial Prize 2023

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