Research Catalog

Title

There was fire in Vancouver / Sinéad Morrissey.

Author

Morrissey, Sinéad, 1972-

Publication

Manchester [England] : Carcanet, 1996.

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Details

Additional Authors

Leonard L. Milberg Collection of Irish Poetry NjP

Description

60 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

Morissey is the winner of the 1990 Patrick Kavanagh Award for Poetry. This book of poems is organized around the theme of the journey: from communism to spiritual affirmation; from life in Ireland to life abroad, and return; and from the security of given structures - the family in particular - to independence and security in the self. Poems of childhood and communist upbringing open the collection. There are poems about death; about love, its loss and the disorienatation that ensues; and a number which deal with angels and the implications of religious faith.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• 1900-talet
• English poetry > 20th century > Irish authors
• English poetry > Irish authors
• Engelsk poesi
• Irländska författare

Source (note)

• Ex copy is gift of Leonard L. Milberg '53 in honor of Richard M. Ludwig.

Contents

Double vision -- Among Communists -- CND -- Ciara -- Eleven -- A Performance -- Saturday -- Europa Hotel -- Belfast Storm -- English Lesson -- Thoughts in a Black Taxi -- In the Valley of Lazarus -- That Summer -- Bosnia -- The World is Not Round -- There Was Fire in Vancouver -- You -- Love Song -- Clothes -- The Mirror on the Ceiling -- The Fort-Maker -- A Week of Rain -- A Visitor -- Mercury -- Hazel Goodwin Morrissey Brown -- Glaciers -- Awaiting Burial -- My Grandmother through Glass -- Losing a Diary -- To Look Out Once from High Windows -- After the Hurricane -- September Light -- Twenty-One -- Guardians -- My New Angels -- Her Love -- Our Utmost -- If Words -- The Juggler -- Monteverdi Vespers -- Wish -- Restoration.

ISBN

• 1857542304
• 9781857542301

LCCN

96224887

OCLC

• ocm34740179
• 34740179
• SCSB-352253

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library