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Family
Father
Inheritance
Irish
Legacy
Memory
Pain
Poet
Poetry
Second Collection
Second Collections
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- ISBN 9781800175426
- Dimensions: 135 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 26 Mar 2026
- Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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A 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.
Joe 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.
