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Review of The State of the Prisons
Robert Potts, The Guardian, Books of the Year 2004
The young Irish poet Sinead Morrissey's humane but clear-eyed explorations of the personal and the political in her previous collections give good reason to look forward to this new book. In The State of the Prisons her tonal and technical assurance, and her ability to locate and convey the important details, are applied to a pressing topic - punitive, vengeful societies - via a range of historical and contemporary subjects.
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The young Irish poet Sinead Morrissey's humane but clear-eyed explorations of the personal and the political in her previous collections give good reason to look forward to this new book. In The State of the Prisons her tonal and technical assurance, and her ability to locate and convey the important details, are applied to a pressing topic - punitive, vengeful societies - via a range of historical and contemporary subjects.
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