More Sky

Longlisted for the Michael Murphy Memorial Poetry Prize 2025 Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2023 A  The Irish Times  Book of the Year More Sky  is a remarkable and remarkably various debut collection from Eric Gregory Award winner, Joe Carrick-Varty, tracking the ways in which experience of addiction and domestic violence shape a life. Carrick-Varty approaches difficult material with great skill and poise: here we find stunning individual lyrics, with an eye for the vivid an