Pascal Petit’s ninth collection, Beast, is a journey through many landscapes (the Amazon, the French wetlands, the Tala Zone reserve). Although the book is divided into segments named after separate locations, many of the poems feature multiple landscapes. For instance, [...]

Sinéad Morrissey was born in Northern Ireland in 1972 and educated at Trinity College, Dublin. She has published six collections with Carcanet as well as a book of 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. Her latest collection On Balance (2017) was awarded the Forward Prize and was a Poetry Book Society Choice. She has served as Belfast Poet Laureate and in 2019 was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She is currently Professor of Creative Writing at Newcastle University. Her memoir Among Communists (2026) brings to life the distinctive milieu of Belfast Communism in the 1980s, tracing a family’s story of love, conviction, and loss against the backdrop of the Troubles and the fall of the USSR. Poet Dane Holt corresponded with Morrissey to discuss beginnings, belief, and what it means to rediscover the past.