Some Integrity E-Book

Padraig Regan

• Herausgeber: Carcanet Poetry
• Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2022

Beschreibung

Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry 2023 Shortlisted for the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize 2023 Longlisted for the Michael Murphy Memorial Prize 2023 Longlisted for the Polari Book Prize 2023 Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection 2022 Winner of the Clarissa Luard Prize 2021 In 'Minty', one of the typically charged and capacious poems in this eagerly-awaited debut collection, a mojito glass reflects: whatever grid of bricks & wood makes up the room we happen to be sitting in is dilated & wrapped around a single focal-point; whatever portion of the sky that happens to be visible through the window becomes a convex bowl. The weather also happens, as it always does, & passes on, & brings those other places where it falls into the orbit of the glass. 'To look up from Padraig Regan's words is to find oneself gently re-fitted into the world,' writes Vahni Capideo, praising Padraig Regan's 'awesome originality and honesty'. The poems of Some Integrity bring something new to the Irish lyric tradition. Queerness is a way of looking, a perspective, grounded in an awareness of the porous and provisional nature of our bodies. The book's social encounters and exchanges, its responses to the work of artists, its figures in a landscape, and its considerations of food and desire, work as capsule narratives and as an exhilarating extension of that lyric tradition.

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Padraig Regan

Some Integrity

CONTENTS

Title Page 50ml of India InkI(Studies)The UnderstudiesPitcher PlantsA Machine for Harvesting OlivesRehydrating MushroomsA RoastRisottoMintyA SnailKatsu Ika Odori-donII(Reproductions)Life Drawing: JacobPoem for Bobby KendallRembrandt’s Slaughtered OxVermeer’s Supper At EmmausTwo CabinetsOn the Principles of AlchemyOur Personal PapersThe Barberini Faun: A Partial ReconstructionIII(Capriccio)Glitch CityIV(Still Lifes)A GrapefruitPavlovaThe Meat-Shaped StoneStudy of a TomatoThree Poems After Ori GershtPomegranateOn ReflectionFalling BirdFidelityA PumpkinV(Landscapes)Salt IslandA Terrible JuneA Small & Important ThingIrelandA Forest in the Czech RepublicHistoryIt Only Remains AcknowledgementsAbout the AuthorCopyright

‘this is this’

Gertrude Stein

SOME INTEGRITY

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50ML OF INDIA INK

Opaque, & black as gravity,

the ink is perfectly unlike

the small glass pot

whose shape it occupies

so passively. It is

something’s burnt remains

that makes it black.

It is the sticky leavings

of the lac-bug

that makes it shine.

(The name of the lac-bug

has nothing to do

with absence, but means,

in fact, a multitude.)

It performs its tiny fractal

creep through the paper’s

knitted capillaries,

& finds itself astounded

with significance. It means

I am not yet dead.

I was not untempted

to leave this blank.