Sinéad Morrissey was born in 1972 and grew up in Belfast. She read English and German at Trinity College, Dublin, where she completed her PhD in 2003. Her poem ‘Through the Square Window’ won the National Poetry Competition in 2007. Her six poetry collections are There Was Fire in Vancouver (1996), Between Here and There (2002), The State of the Prisons (2005), Through the Square Window (2009),...
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In 2023 the T. S. Eliot Prize celebrated its 30th anniversary. We marked the occasion by looking back at the collections which have won ‘the Prize poets most want to win’ (Sir Andrew Motion). When Sinéad Morrissey won the T. S. Eliot Prize 2013 with her collection Parallax (Carcanet), Ian...
This article on the T. S. Eliot Prize was first published on the Poetry Book Society website in 2014. The Poetry Book Society is delighted to announce that the winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry 2013 is Parallax by Sinéad Morrissey, published by Carcanet Press. This...
This article on the T. S. Eliot Prize was first published on the Poetry Book Society website in 2013. The Poetry Book Society is delighted to announce a wonderfully diverse Shortlist for the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry 2013. Judges Ian Duhig (Chair), Imtiaz Dharker and Vicki Feaver have...
