Description
More Sky is a remarkable and remarkably various debut collection from Eric Gregory Award winner, Joe Carrick-Varty, tracking the ways in which experience of addiction and domestic violence shape a life.
Carrick-Varty approaches difficult material with great skill and poise: here we find stunning individual lyrics, with an eye for the vivid and surreal; surprising sequences which use Buddhism and Greek myth and the life of coral to refract the poems’ interests; and the astonishing sixty-three page long poem ‘sky doc’ which meditates on suicide, and its retrospective haunting of every corner of its speaker’s life.
Cable 
Bridge 116 
Milk and Honey 
Then What 
Comic Poems 
Macavity 
Words the Turtle Taught Me 
The Moon Before Morning 
Greetings from Grandpa 
I May Be Stupid But I'm Not That Stupid 
Notebook of a Return to My Native Land 
You Can't Take an Elephant on the Bus 
Floss 
Over the Moon 
The Handle of the Door