Before Violence
Before Violence
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A Poetry Book Society Recommendation
Praising Joe Carrick Vartys debut, the T.S. Eliot Prize judges observed that his work confronts fraught spaces of addiction and domestic violence [...its] lyricism shaped by a raw and fragmented reality.
His outstanding second collection reflects further on growing up under the cloud of abuse and alcoholism, unfolding compelling patterns as it examines how the past shapes our future lives. Bold and unusual in form, its three gripping long poems look unflinchingly and unforgettably at inheritance, pain and memory.
About the Author
About the Author
<p>Joe Carrick-Varty is a British-Irish poet, writer and founding editor of bath magg. He is the author of two pamphlets of poetry: Somewhere Far (The Poetry Business, 2019) and 54 Questions for the Man Who Sold a Shotgun to My Father (Out-Spoken Press, 2020). His work has appeared in the New Statesman, The Poetry Review and Poetry London. He won an Eric Gregory Award in 2022. More Sky is his debut collection.</p><br>
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