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.
States of Happiness 
Hansel and Gretel 
Milk and Honey 
Gold from the Stone 
The Lover's Pinch 
Pretend You Don't Know Me 
Being Alive 
The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova 
This Is Yarrow 
Somewhere Else Entirely 
Comic Poems 
Signs Like This 
Mrs Noah's Pockets 
New and Selected Poems, Volume Two 
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats