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Before Violence (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781800175426)
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xA Poetry Book Society Recommendation
Praising Joe Carrick Varty's 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.
Author: Joe Carrick-Varty
ISBN-10: 1800175426
ISBN-13: 9781800175426
Publisher: Carcanet Press
Language: English
Published: 05/28/2026
Pages: 168
Format: Paperback
By Joe Carrick-Varty
xJoe Carrick-Varty is a British- Irish poet whose work has appeared in the New Statesman, Granta and POETRY. His debut book, More Sky, was named a Best Poetry Collection of the Year by The Irish Times, won an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors, and was shortlisted for both the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Michael Murphy Memorial Prize. His second book, Before Violence, is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.
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