Sinéad Morrissey was born in Northern Ireland in 1972. She has published six collections with Carcanet as well as a selected poems, Found Architecture (2020). Her awards include a Lannan Literary Fellowship (2007), First Prize in the UK National Poetry Competition (2007), the Irish Times Award (2009, 2013) and the T. S. Eliot Prize for her fifth collection, Parallax, in 2013. In 2016 she received the EM Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her latest collection, On Balance (2017) was awarded the Forward Prize and was a Poetry Book Society Choice. In 2020 Sinéad Morrissey was named the European Poet of Freedom by the City of Gdańsk, Poland and in 2024 she was the recipient of the Seamus Heaney Award (Japan). She has served as Belfast Poet Laureate and in 2019 was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
‘The gentleness with which Morrissey draws the filigree complications of the said and unsaid that connect any family together is exceptional.’
Nicholas Allen, The Irish Times
- The Market Place Theatre & Arts Centre, 9 Market St, Armagh BT61 7BW
- Monday 27 July
- 7pm
- Cost: £12.00
More information and booking: https://marketplacearmagh.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/873664111
