Belfast-based readers are invited to the launch of Through the Square Window, the new collection of poems by Sinéad Morrissey. This event takes place this Thursday 19th November at No Alibis Bookshop, 83 Botanic Avenue, Belfast, BT7 1JL. Places are limited so please arrive early!



Published this month by Carcanet, Sinéad Morrissey’s fourth collection is the Poetry Book Society Choice for winter 2009 and is currently on the shortlist for this year's T.S.Eliot Prize for Poetry.

Through the Square Window explores fertility, pregnancy, and the landscape of early childhood in poems that are by turns tender, exuberant and unsettling. Pitched against the envious dead, these diverse narratives of birth and its consequences are rooted in literary and historical contexts - from Aristotle’s theory of spontaneous generation to Lewis Carroll’s Alice - that amplify her theme. Infancy is for Morrissey the rich and contested territory in which what it means to be human in a precarious world is disclosed.

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