Parallax

Description

Capturing David Niven on a magical marble escalator to heaven in 1946, recording L.S. Lowry?s studio after his death, and peering into the illicit worlds of the Victorian Mutoscope, these poems document what is caught, and what is lost, when houses and cityscapes, servants and saboteurs are arrested in time by photography. Assured and unsettling, Sin?ad Morrissey?s poems explore the paradoxes in what is seen, read, and misread in the surfaces of the presented world.;Cover -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Epigraph -- 1801 -- Baltimore -- Shadows -- Shostakovich -- Photographs of Belfast by Alexander Robert Hogg -- Home Birth -- A Day's Blindness -- Display -- Fur -- Fool's Gold -- Jigsaw -- Puzzle -- Photographing Lowry's House -- Migraine -- Daughter -- V is for Veteran -- Last Winter -- A Matter of Life and Death -- Signatures -- Through the Eye of a Needle -- The Doctors -- The Evil Key -- Yard Poem -- Lighthouse -- The Coal Jetty -- 'Ladies in Spring' by Eudora Welty -- The Mutoscope -- The House of Osiris in the Field of Reeds -- The Party Bazaar -- The High Window. -- Peacocks and ButterfliesA Lie -- Blog -- Notes -- About the Author -- Also by Sinéad Morrissey from Carcanet Press -- Copyright.