Winner of the Seamus Heaney Award, Japan 2024
Shortlisted for the Pigott Poetry Prize 2021
A Sunday Independent Book of the Year 2020
An Irish Times Best Poetry Book of the Year 2020

Sinéad Morrissey has published six celebrated collections of poetry. This Selected Poems reveals how she has developed formally and thematically from the precocious and carefully considered first book, There Was Fire in Vancouver (1996), to the most recent and highly praised, On Balance (2017).

There
is throughout Morrissey's work a civic dimension: her imagination is
dynamically peopled, as are her various landscapes and sense of history,
and she is drawn to the conflicts and contradictions at the heart of
all human intention and inquiry, as well as to celebrating individual
women and men and the things they create or unleash. There is always a
paradox which she enters and explores, making it luminous but never
resolving it. For Morrissey, each poem becomes a word-space in which
readers are set free on their own journey of discovery.